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A team of independent advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a science-based outline for deploying a vaccine when it’s ready. The goal is to stop deaths and viral spread fast.

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with Jose Romero, chair of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s immunization committee, about the committee’s recommendations for coronavirus vaccination.

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with Jose Romero, chair of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s immunization committee, about the committee’s recommendations for coronavirus vaccination.

COVID-19 can cause symptoms that go well beyond the lungs, from strokes to organ failure. To explain these widespread injuries, researchers are studying how the virus affects the vascular system.

COVID-19 can cause symptoms that go well beyond the lungs, from strokes to organ failure. To explain these widespread injuries, researchers are studying how the virus affects the vascular system.

At the University of Pittsburgh, new medical students recited an alternative oath, drawing on current events and recent political turmoil to highlight the societal responsibilities of doctors.

At the University of Pittsburgh, new medical students recited an alternative oath, drawing on current events and recent political turmoil to highlight the societal responsibilities of doctors.

In talk of the impact Amy Coney Barrett could have on abortion rights, many people overlook related cases that might be in play, including the right to birth control that the court recognized in 1965.

In talk of the impact Amy Coney Barrett could have on abortion rights, many people overlook related cases that might be in play, including the right to birth control that the court recognized in 1965.

As many as 130 million Americans have a preexisting health condition. Protections for those patients under the Affordable Care Act have become a campaign issue in races up and down the ballot.