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Using Plague Diaries to Keep a Record of COVID-19

…recent Ebola outbreak, the opioid epidemic and, this year, COVID-19. Paige Nguyen uses this photo of herself in a grocery store to comment on mask wearing and responsibility. Photo courtesy Paige Nguyen. “The history of medicine has always served as an important window on social history, and looking at pandemics…

Top Stories of 2020

…be an alternative to opioids. Shutting down coal-fired plants saves lives iStock images Findings from environmental scientist Jennifer Burney showed that between 2005 and 2016, the shutdown of coal-fired units saved an estimated 26,610 lives. The transition away from coal also saved 570 million bushels of corn, soybeans and wheat…