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Morning Rounds By Elizabeth Cooney

Birx on avoidable Covid deaths, the battle over Talkspace, & Pandemic’s mental health toll

World Health Organization

Morning Rounds By Elizabeth Cooney

Novavax Covid-19 vaccine results, WHO experts in China, & cervical cancer screening rates

Kamala Harris

Morning Rounds By Erin Brodwin

VP Harris calls for urgent action on Black maternal health, the AHA loses its top lobbyist, & Biden’s $1.7B plan to track Covid-19 variants

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Morning Rounds By Katie Palmer

First chimeric human-monkey embryos, need for new antibiotics, & barriers to care for transgender women

Johnson & Johnson syringe

Morning Rounds By Theresa Gaffney

An extended J&J vaccine pause, female nurses and suicide, & a match-up between psychedelics and antidepressants

Johnson & Johnson vial

Morning Rounds By Eric Boodman

CDC panel to discuss vaccine-associated clots, a surge in childhood gun injuries, & a deathbed double standard

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Morning Rounds By Eric Boodman

New analysis of Covid-19 disparities, snoring and brain changes in kids, & setbacks for the Huntington’s community

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Methadone clinic

Morning Rounds By Elizabeth Cooney

Children losing parents to Covid, JAMA under fire for its handling of race, & access to opioid use disorder medications

Dr. Dan Barouch

Morning Rounds By Elizabeth Cooney

A push to delay second doses of vaccine, STAT Madness winners, & kids waiting longer in ERs for mental health care

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vaccine card and syringes

Morning Rounds By Elizabeth Cooney

Vaccine passports may be doomed, the challenge of mental health apps for young people, & hallucinating lab mice

Blood glucose monitor

Morning Rounds By Elizabeth Cooney

Covid-19 pushes up death rate, BGI blurs line between biotech and Beijing, & scientists tease out type 1 diabetes origins

Florida - vaccine tray

Morning Rounds By Elizabeth Cooney

New Covid vaccine data in adolescents, WHO team asks for patience, & the anguish of Covid deaths now

2/26 Rochelle Walensky

Morning Rounds By Elizabeth Cooney

CDC director says, ‘Right now I’m scared,’ real-world study confirms mRNA vaccines’ efficacy, & facing data gaps on trans populations

EUA Pfizer vial Covid-19 vaccination

Morning Rounds By Elizabeth Cooney

Pfizer/BioNTech testing vaccine in children, how to talk to the vaccine hesitant, & SARS-CoV-2 in the mouth

CT vaccine site

Morning Rounds By Elizabeth Cooney

AZ pushes back on vaccine efficacy, a $10 billion boost to vaccine efforts, & the pandemic next time

AstraZeneca vial

Morning Rounds By Elizabeth Cooney

Mishaps and miscommunications overshadow AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine, swashbuckling CEO overplays his hand, & returning to work in a pandemic

Karen Meadows

Morning Rounds By Elizabeth Cooney

AstraZeneca may have used ‘outdated information,’ scrambling to bring vaccine to homebound Americans, & Covid stamps (really)

AstraZeneca building

Morning Rounds By Elizabeth Cooney

AstraZeneca vaccine results, rising Covid-19 cases highlight ‘precarious position,’ & what ‘Beans’ taught her parents about pediatric cancer

Virus Outbreak Bulgaria

Morning Rounds By Elizabeth Cooney

Big day for AstraZeneca vaccine, telehealth may be heading for a reckoning, & a path for research inclusion

Amazon in the clouds

Morning Rounds By Eric Boodman

Medical groups respond to Atlanta shootings, coaxing mouse embryos to form organs, & Amazon’s telehealth expansion

Berkeley and Oakland

Morning Rounds By Eric Boodman

Sticking with the Covid vaccine regimen, UC-Elsevier dispute settled, & ‘the Fauci effect’

Xavier Becerra

Morning Rounds By Elizabeth Cooney

The curious case of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine, Becerra’s 4 most urgent challenges if confirmed, & how well vaccines worked in nursing homes

Texas -- covid vaccine

Morning Rounds By Elizabeth Cooney

Encouraging Covid-19 vaccination, rediscovering the miracle of vaccines, & understanding an Ebola bombshell

Birth control pills

Morning Rounds By Elizabeth Cooney

Biden to push vaccines for all by May 1, how will doctors talk about digital birth control, & a costly measles outbreak

Biden Friday

Morning Rounds By Elizabeth Cooney

Biden’s big speech tonight, homeless people are the invisible Covid victims, & preparing for the next pandemic

Lung Cancer Cell - blue and pink

Morning Rounds By Elizabeth Cooney

When Covid became real, a ‘wild year’ for school nurses, & new screening guidelines for lung cancer

EUA Pfizer vial Covid-19 vaccination

Morning Rounds By Elizabeth Cooney

What fully vaccinated people can do, how W.Va. hospitals helped secure Covid relief billions, & the latest fish story