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The 100-Day Vaccine

COVID-19, Recent Work /

The first vaccine for COVID-19 broke records: Only 342 days passed between the virus being sequenced and an FDA-authorized vaccine. Looking back, researchers now wonder whether it could be done even more quickly. Speedier vaccine development for COVID would have saved many lives. At 100 days, in April 2020, about 2.3 million people had been

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Settling the Score

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The debate over one of the most contested exams in medical education comes to a head. The next few months may bring a seismic shift to a medical school milestone, the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE) Step 1. Aspiring doctors typically take it after their second year of medical school, and a good score

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