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Alexis Madrigal, co-founder of The COVID Tracking Project, talks about the decision to stand down The Atlantic's effort to collect and share data about the coronavirus.

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Peggy Honein, a researcher working on the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's COVID-19 response, says multiple layers of intervention can help schools open safely and slow the spread of the coronavirus.

Cody Hall, director of communications for Governor Brian Kemp, says if he could change anything about the state's COVID-19 vaccine rollout, he'd have state leaders talk more about supply constraints.

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Philip Santangelo, a biomedical engineering researcher at Georgia Tech, explains how the mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna work--and how scientists know so much about them.

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Joy Fernandez de Narayan, who manages the 'street medicine' program for the Mercy Care clinic, says the program that offers care to people experiencing homelessness in Atlanta has had to change to keep providing services during the pandemic.

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Dr. Jermaine Jackson, who runs Piedmont Healthcare's Pulmonary COVID-19 Recovery Clinic, says some people spend months dealing with the consequences of a coronavirus infection.

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Dr. Audrey Arona, who leads the health district that serves Gwinnett county, says her office has seen high demand for COVID-19 vaccines even though supplies remain low. (Audio updated 1/21/21)

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Vivian Ho, health economist at Rice University, says there's a relationship between a state's decision to issue strict lockdown measures early in the pandemic and how many COVID-19 deaths ultimately occurred there. More here: https://www.bakerinstitute.org/research/state-restrictions-and-covid-19-death-rate/

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Thomas Friedrich, professor of virology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says a new, more transmissible variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 could have big implications for the pandemic in the U.S. if its starts spreading widely in the country.

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Dr. Bruce Y. Lee, professor of health policy and management at the City University of New York, says it's no small feat to get vaccines from where they're produced to where they're administered--but it's a critical part of any vaccination effort.

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