Amber Dance
Freelance science journalist
Freelance science journalist
Amber Dance, Ph.D., an award-winning freelance science journalist based in Southern California, co-authors the Center's Health Divide column. She also contributes to publications including PNAS Front Matter, The Scientist, and Nature. She also edits books on a variety of topics.
After earning a doctorate in biology, Amber Dance re-trained in journalism as a way to engage her broad interest in science and share her enthusiasm with readers. She mainly writes about life sciences, with particular expertise in microbiology, cell biology, neuroscience and lab techniques.
Plus, mandate deadlines loom as some workers resist.
Plus, new CDC study finds greatest hospitalization and death among American Indians and Alaska Natives.
Also, racial gaps in breakthrough cases garner attention, and plans to vaccinate kids under 12 take shape.
Plus, CDC urges pregnant people to get vaccinated, and some answers on mixing and matching vaccines.
Plus, more at-home tests are coming, and workplace mandates prove effective in boosting vaccination rates.
Plus, kids ages 5–11 may get first shots by Halloween, and two shots prove better than one for J&J vaccine.
FDA advisors back Pfizer booster for high-risk groups, and fears of winter respiratory "twindemic" loom.
Biden's latest salvo against delta, plus vaccines and boosters fuel ethical quagmires.
School mask mandates become civil rights issue, booster fault lines emerge, and long COVID mysteries abound.
Mandates follow in the wake of Pfizer's full approval, and prescriptions and calls to poison control centers for ivermectin rise dramatically.