Tara Haelle, Senior Contributor

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The Most Important Things To Know About Blood Clots

Blood clots are responsible for one in four deaths globally if you include heart attacks and strokes, but people working from home may be at higher risk for pulmonary embolism too.

Africa Declared Free Of Wild Polio Virus

Four years after the last case of wild polio in Nigeria, the World Health Organization announced today that its African Region is officially free of wild poliovirus

‘Nonlethal Beanbags’ From Police Cause Serious Injury, Possible Brain Damage

The “nonlethal beanbag” munitions some police departments use for crowd control can cause severe injury, including brain hemorrhaging, report doctors.

Echoes Of The Past: Can We Apply Lessons Of The Polio Era To The Coronavirus Pandemic?

Is it possible today to recapture the sense of unity that enabled the US to overcome the threat of polio in the 1950s?

Risking Their Lives To Save Their Lives: Why Public Health Experts Support Black Lives Matter Protests

Public health support of the Black Lives Matter protests seems to contradict public health advice to stay home. But the issue isn’t so simple.

Black Children More Likely To Suffer Kawasaki-Like Coronavirus Inflammatory Condition

A new study from Paris found that black children appear disproportionately more likely to develop the rare inflammatory symptoms linked to COVID-19 than other children.

1 In 4 YouTube Coronavirus Videos Had Bad Information—Long Before Plandemic

More than a month before Plandemic, and even before the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the public health emergency a pandemic, videos with false or misleading information were racking up tens of millions of views on YouTube, according to two …

Why It’s Important To Push Back On ‘Plandemic’—And How To Do It

The stakes are too high right now not to push back on dangerous misinformation about the pandemic. Everyone has a social responsibility to speak up.