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While vaccines to halt the spread of the coronavirus were developed in record time, one aspect of the health care system has not kept up with the times: the sharing of important health information from clinic to clinic, or even from doctor to doctor within a hospital. Elizabeth A. Regan, professor of health informatics at the University of South Carolina, explains why this is a danger – and what can be done about it

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Vaccination has been controversial from its beginning. Gaining people's trust in vaccines has been crucial. An important part of that is a strong communications plan.
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As the one-year anniversary of the World Health Organization’s declaration of a pandemic approaches, it might be time to consider how our modern age wants to remember this plague.
Why Tunisians are still out on the streets – a decade after the ‘Dignity Revolution’

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Since the revolution, Tunisians’ call for "bread, freedom and social justice" have fallen on deaf ears.
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Why you need to keep your vaccination card safe

COVID-19 revealed how sick the US health care delivery system really is

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The Texas blackouts showed how climate extremes threaten energy systems across the US

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From our international edition

Naples memorialized its 17th century plague with a festival for healing, and so should we after COVID-19

Why Tunisians are still out on the streets – a decade after the ‘Dignity Revolution’

We asked children around the world what they knew about COVID. This is what they said

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