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Rachel Kidman, an epidemiologist at Stony Brook University, says more than 40,000 children have likely lost parents to COVID-19 and other causes of death related to the pandemic, and the number continues to grow.

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Bishop Frederick Williams, head of Gethsemane Worship Center in Albany, says his church had dozens of members hospitalized in the early days of the pandemic, as the coronavirus ravaged southwest Georgia.

Adrienne Levesque has been dealing with COVID-19 and its after-effects for a year. She's one of many so-called Long-haulers who've faced months of health challenges in the wake of a coronavirus infection.

Andy Miller, editor of Georgia Health News, says healthcare wasn't the biggest issue for state lawmakers during the recently-wrapped 2021 legislative session, despite the pandemic.

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Mark Thompson, an epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, led a recent study that showed the COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna worked well outside of the controlled conditions of clinical trials.

During the pandemic, the Tuskegee syphilis study has been invoked as a reason for vaccine hesitancy in the Black community. But Doctor Rueben C. Warren, director of the Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care, says it's not that simple.

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Brian Castrucci, with the de Beaumont Foundation, says many self-identified Republicans are reluctant to get vaccinated against COVID-19, but his nonprofit has found some ways to convince them.

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George Painter, president of the Emory Institute for Drug Development, says antiviral drugs play an important role in fighting this pandemic and the next one. A drug he developed is currently going through clinical trials.

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Dr. Sonja Rasmussen, with the University of Florida College of Medicine, says what little we do know about the safety and efficacy of COVId-19 vaccines in pregnant individuals is promising.

Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent for Kaiser Health News, says the Biden administration's COVID-19 aid plan does a lot to strengthen the Affordable Care Act and make it's coverage more attainable.

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