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Major league and collegiate teams are desperately trying to figure out ways to play ball, but millions of athletes are being overlooked in these discussions – those who compete in high school and youth sports. What does the fall look like for those young athletes? It looks pretty scary, write Tamara Hew-Butler and Phillip D. Levy of Wayne State University, especially if parents, coaches and health experts aren’t exceptionally careful. That extra care might involve blood tests rather than testing with swabs, and it definitely means not sharing drinks and water bottles.
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Lynne Anderson
Senior Health + Medicine Editor
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Ongoing testing, say the authors, is critical to bringing back amateur sports.
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Tamara Hew-Butler, Wayne State University; Phillip D. Levy, Wayne State University
Our experts offer safer ways to bring back amateur sports.
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Health
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William Petri, University of Virginia
Is it possible that people who recover from COVID-19 will be plagued with long term side effects from the infection? An infectious disease physician reviews the evidence so far.
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Arif R. Sarwari, West Virginia University; Christopher Goode, West Virginia University
Delaying medical care comes at a cost, both human and financial. The patients some emergency rooms have been seeing are a lot sicker and more likely to need hospitalization.
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Education
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Gregory N. Price, University of New Orleans
Any HBCU closures brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic could potentially hinder the careers of many Black Americans.
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Science + Technology
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Patricia L. Foster, Indiana University
The smallpox virus appears to have been with humanity for millennia before a global vaccination drive wiped it out. Current genome research suggests how smallpox spread and where it came from.
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Jeanna Matthews, Clarkson University
A social media researcher explains how bots and sock puppet accounts manipulate and polarize public debate.
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Environment + Energy
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Pamela Soltis, University of Florida; Joseph Cook, University of New Mexico; Richard Yanagihara, University of Hawaii
In less than 20 years, communities around the globe have been hit by a string of major disease outbreaks: SARS, MERS, Ebola, Zika and now, COVID-19. Nearly all emerging infectious diseases in humans originate…
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Politics + Society
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Jennifer Earl, University of Arizona; James J. Nolan, West Virginia University; Jessica Maves Braithwaite, University of Arizona; Kirssa Cline Ryckman, University of Arizona
Scholars who study policing explain what they have found that could help reduce police prejudice and violence.
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Stephen M. Underhill, Marshall Univeristy
As the US faces historic challenges to its democracy, Trump is mirroring tactics used by the former FBI director to smear his critics and consolidate power.
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Benjamin Appel, University of Michigan; Cyanne E. Loyle, Pennsylvania State University
Research into how war-torn and fractured nations find justice and societal reconciliation finds ways to establish sustainable and lasting peace in divided societies.
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Alison Dundes Renteln, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the Supreme Court as a conservative. But his ruling in a major civil rights case is part of a pattern of justices setting aside ideology to address historic injustices.
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Ethics + Religion
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Ken Chitwood, Concordia College New York
Saudi Arabia is barring international visitors for the hajj. A scholar explains a long history of disease, politics and war that have previously prevented people from making the journey to Mecca.
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Elizabeth Marder, University of California, Davis; Paloma Beamer, University of Arizona
Taking a trip this summer? You can do a lot to prevent coronavirus exposure, but you cannot take away all risk. It is important to practice caution.
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Jennifer M. Gómez, Wayne State University
Sexual abuse has unique effects on people who are members of the same minority group, research suggests. An expert who has studied the issue in detail explains the added issue of cultural betrayal.
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Morgan Marietta, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Many Americans are surprised to learn that Electoral College members do not necessarily have to pick the candidate their state's voters favored. Or do they?
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