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CES showed off the COVID-19 mask gimmick arms race

By Nicole Wetsman

Zocdoc offers COVID-19 vaccine scheduler to health care organizations

By Nicole Wetsman

Microsoft, Salesforce, and Oracle are working on digital vaccination records

By Jay Peters
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Period tracking app settles charges it lied to users about privacy

By Zoe Schiffer

US to require negative test from international travelers

By Nicole Wetsman

Older adults struggle to access COVID-19 vaccine appointment websites

By Nicole Wetsman

It’s 2021, and the pandemic is still here

No one wants 2021 to be 2020: The Sequel

By Mary Beth Griggs
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Amazon reportedly developing radar-equipped sleep apnea tracker

By Jon Porter
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FDA tells US health providers not to modify COVID-19 vaccine dose schedule

By Nicole Wetsman

Florida counties use Eventbrite to schedule COVID-19 vaccine appointments

By Nicole Wetsman

A quirk of COVID-19 tests can track the new coronavirus variant

By Nicole Wetsman

Go read this New Yorker report on the failed response to COVID-19 in the US

By Nicole Wetsman

US requires negative coronavirus test from UK travelers

By Nicole Wetsman

Monitoring COVID-19 vaccine safety means sorting signal from noise

By Nicole Wetsman

The CDC says the top global health story of 2020 was mosquitoes

By Nicole Wetsman

A semester in solitude

After spending the fall in their bedrooms, students say their mental health has suffered

By Monica Chin

Frontline essential workers and the elderly next in line for COVID-19 vaccinations in US

By Nicole Wetsman

Stanford algorithm decided to vaccinate only seven of its frontline COVID-19 workers, out of 5,000 doses

By Jay Peters
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Apple just temporarily closed all 53 stores in California and over a dozen in London

By Sean Hollister

A COVID-19 vaccine gets a little bit extra

By Mary Beth Griggs
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Moderna COVID-19 vaccine second to get FDA sign-off in US

It’ll start to be distributed within days

By Nicole Wetsman

Google now offers weekly COVID-19 tests to every US employee

By Mitchell Clark
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Moderna vaccine gets sign-off from independent FDA committee

By Nicole Wetsman

COVID-19 vaccine monitoring program limited to English speakers

By Nicole Wetsman

Most doses of a COVID-19 treatment are going unused

By Nicole Wetsman

The Apple Watch expands its range of cardio fitness measurements

By Nicole Wetsman

Health care workers in US start receiving COVID-19 vaccines

By Nicole Wetsman

We did the impossible thing, but not the hard thing

By Nicole Wetsman and Mary Beth Griggs
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FDA authorizes first COVID-19 vaccine in US

By Nicole Wetsman

Contact tracing apps promised big and didn’t deliver

By Nicole Wetsman

Pfizer vaccine gets green light from FDA committee

By Nicole Wetsman

Florida’s justification for raiding COVID data whistleblower Rebekah Jones is looking a little shaky

By Sean Hollister