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News, analysis and resources on the fast-moving coronavirus pandemic, featuring timely dispatches from reporters, experts and providers. 

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Coronavirus Files: Deaths, infections, and long COVID all trend downward

By Amber Dance
Pandemic stats drop near lowest levels yet...
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Coronavirus Files: Three years in, data show pandemic hurt Black children, pregnant women

By Amber Dance
Also, looking back and forward after three pandemic years, and a new analysis points to animal origin for COVID.
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Coronavirus Files: Parents lied about kids’ COVID, and cheap drug may cut long COVID risk

By Amber Dance
Also this week: Study reaffirms nonwhite people suffered more from COVID, and experts tell Congress lab leak warrants more investigation.
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Coronavirus Files: Lab leak returns to headlines as California emergency expires

By Amber Dance
Also, this week: COVID surveillance created burdens, but little benefit, for low-income workers, and the lab leak theory crops up again in the news cycle.
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Coronavirus Files: Latest data shows prisoners were vulnerable to COVID

By Amber Dance
Also this week, the pandemic impacted motherhood choices unequally, and Idaho lawmakers aim to criminalize mRNA vaccinations.
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Coronavirus Files: Long COVID flies under the radar in many communities; Moderna pledges free vaccines

By Amber Dance
Also, Johns Hopkins and NYT curtail COVID tracking efforts, and new research on long COVID's unequal toll.
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Coronavirus Files: Bird flu stirs worries, but it’s too soon to panic

By Amber Dance
Also, California drops plan to require COVID vaccines in schools, and Chinese study claims no new variants detected from outbreak there.
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Coronavirus Files: The beginning of the end

By Amber Dance
Also this week: Dearth of pandemic data on race, ethnicity ‘beyond bad,' and experts support additional oversight of pathogen research.
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Coronavirus Files: FDA vaccine committee OKs move to all-bivalent vaccines

By Amber Dance
Also this week: Latino teens take the lead in vaccine education, and fresh signs the tripledemic is on the wane.
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Coronavirus Files: Pandemic endangers minority cancer patients, pregnant people

By Amber Dance
In other news, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis takes aim at vaccine and mask mandates.

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National Fellowship Applications Now Open

The Center for Health Journalism’s 2023 National Fellowship will provide $2,000 to $10,000 reporting grants, five months of mentoring from a veteran journalist, and a week of intensive training at USC Annenberg in Los Angeles from July 16-20. Click here for more information and the application form, due May 5.

2023 Domestic Violence Symposium and Impact Reporting Fund

The Center for Health Journalism’s 2023 Symposium on Domestic Violence provides reporters with a roadmap for covering this public health epidemic with nuance and sensitivity. The next session will be offered virtually on Friday, March 31. Journalists attending the symposium will be eligible to apply for a reporting grant of $2,000 to $10,000 from our Domestic Violence Impact Reporting Fund. Find more info here!

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