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Sarah Evanega, from the Cornell University Alliance For Science, says the coronavirus has spawned a pandemic of misinformation. In a recent study, she found a few important super-spreaders of falsehoods and conspiracy theories.

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Roxanne Scott, who covers the U.S. Census for WABE, says the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the national headcount into disarray. It's sparked a legal fight that has pushed the final deadline back and forth on the calendar, and experts say that could lead to an undercount in Georgia.

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Drs. Colleen Kelley and Valeria Cantos are helping run a coronavirus vaccine trial at Emory University. They say it's not easy to get Black and Latinx people to volunteer for medical research, even though they've been the groups hardest hit by COVID-19.

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Yamil Berard, an investigative reporter with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, says dealing with the coronavirus has pushed many rural hospitals in Georgia to the brink and has forced some to close their doors. (Read more from Berard here: https://www.ajc.com/news/investigations/push-comes-to-shove-moment-for-rural-hospitals-in-georgia/OUDVXKRW7JHHDPQ7TKIZJYWUZY/) 

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Deirdre Barret, who studies dreams at Harvard Medical School, says the pandemic is affecting how people dream and that women are seeing outsized effects.

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Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, says it's time for the U.S. leaders to rethink how they're handling the COVID-19 outbreak, especially as there's still a long way to go before life returns to something resembling normal.

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Apoorva Mandavilli, a reporter for the New York Times, says recent changes to Centers For Disease Control and Prevention's coronavirus testing guidance were made against the objections of agency scientists. (More on the story here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/health/coronavirus-testing-cdc.html)

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Dr. James Hildreth, president of Meharry Medical College, and the other heads of the country's historically Black medical schools want to make sure the people most impacted by the pandemic have access to a vaccine that's proven to work for them.

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Dr. Tom Frieden, a former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says efforts from elected officials to undermine the public health agency could draw-out our fight against the coronavirus.

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Kelly Girtz, the mayor of Athens-Clarke County, talks about what the spike in coronavirus infections at the University of Georgia has means for his community--and what he thinks should be done to slow the spread of COVID-19.

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