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SA Health & Medicine Vol 2 Issue 4

Health & Medicine

August 2020

Volume 2, Issue 4

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Features

How to Use Masks during the Coronavirus Pandemic
Public Health

How to Use Masks during the Coronavirus Pandemic

What kinds of face coverings work for protection against COVID-19? How do you use them safely? A series of simple steps outlines the answers

By Katie Peek, Amanda Montañez, and Sophie Bushwick
Why Racism, Not Race, Is a Risk Factor for Dying of COVID-19
Public Health

Why Racism, Not Race, Is a Risk Factor for Dying of COVID-19

Public health specialist and physician Camara Phyllis Jones talks about ways that jobs, communities and health care leave Black Americans more exposed and less protected

By Claudia Wallis
COVID-19 Vaccine Developers Search for Antibodies That 'First Do No Harm'
Medicine

COVID-19 Vaccine Developers Search for Antibodies That 'First Do No Harm'

Biotechs and pharma want to protect patients without triggering immune system havoc

By Gary Stix and Esther Landhuis

Departments

From the Editor
Viral Learning Curve
News
The Coronavirus Outbreak Could Make it Quicker and Easier to Trial Drugs
Early Coronavirus Immunity Data Fuel Promise for a Vaccine
Coronavirus and the Flu: A Looming Double Threat
New Artificial Eye Mimics a Retina's Natural Curve
From Headaches to 'COVID Toes,' Coronavirus Symptoms Are a Bizarre Mix
Heat and Humidity Are Already Reaching the Limits of Human Tolerance
Opinion
So How Deadly <em>Is</em> COVID-19?
Addressing the Stigma That Surrounds Addiction
The Inflated Promise of Genomic Medicine
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