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Health By Shraddha Chakradhar

Charting the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, through STAT headlines

Biotech By Damian Garde

STAT+ Conversations: A conversation with Nobel laureate Charles Rice

First Opinion By Sean Palfrey

In the shadow of Covid-19 lurks the threat of a fearful measles outbreak

The Readout LOUD By Damian Garde, Meg Tirrell, and Adam Feuerstein

Listen: Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine: the debate, details, and distribution

First Opinion By Lauren Hines

I worked hard to protect myself from Covid-19 and the flu. Yet I got both — at the same time

Health By Eric Boodman

As a new Covid-19 treatment arrives, hospitals scramble to solve logistical and ethical challenges

Health By Andrew Joseph

WHO group recommends against using remdesivir to treat hospitalized Covid-19 patients

Health By Elizabeth Cooney

Delirium could signal Covid-19 infection in older adults, study finds

Health By Associated Press

FDA allows first rapid coronavirus test that gives results at home

First Opinion By David Tuller and Steven Lubet

Proposed British guidelines reject useless chronic fatigue syndrome treatments

Health By Usha Lee McFarling

‘They’ve been following the science’: How the Covid-19 pandemic has been curtailed in Cherokee Nation

STAT Summit By Eric Boodman

Hopeful Covid-19 vaccine data won’t help hospitals that are overstretched now, experts say

First Opinion By Elliott J. Millenson and William A. Haseltine

Build a plan for Covid-19 home testing on reason, not speculation or politics

First Opinion By Nick Voyles

We can’t eliminate hepatitis C without removing barriers to treatment

Health By Elizabeth Cooney and Matthew Herper

Pill used to treat OCD and anxiety may prevent Covid-19 from worsening, a preliminary study suggests

Health By Elizabeth Cooney

With a meteoric rise in deaths, talk of waves is misguided, say Covid-19 modelers

Health By Elizabeth Cooney

Restaurants and gyms were spring ‘superspreader’ sites. Occupancy limits could control Covid, new study predicts

First Opinion By Daniel Salmon and Joshua M. Sharfstein

Lessons for monitoring Covid-19 vaccine safety from the H1N1 pandemic

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As STAT turns 5, a look back at science and medicine’s biggest headlines and controversies

Health By Eric Boodman

Universal mask use could save 130,000 U.S. lives by the end of February, new study estimates

Health By Andrew Joseph

CDC expands definition of ‘close contacts,’ after study suggests Covid-19 can be passed in brief interactions

Health By Elizabeth Cooney

Covid-19’s wintry mix: As we move indoors, dry air will help the coronavirus spread

First Opinion By Gigi Kwik Gronvall and Rachel West

We cannot rely on magical thinking: Herd immunity is not a plan

First Opinion By Deborah Jenson

Thank this Ebola-fighting African doctor for monoclonal antibody treatments

Health By Helen Branswell

First Ebola therapy approved by the FDA