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LIVE MONDAY: Dr. Fauci Joins Stanford Medicine to Talk COVID-19 in California

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Use This New Tool to See the COVID-19 Risk In Your County

As coronavirus cases surge in many states, a new color-coding tool backed by a coalition of top scientists provides an apples-to-apples way of comparing outbreak severity, down to the county level.

A User's Guide To Masks: What's Best At Protecting Others (And Yourself)

“We're trading shelter-in-place for face masks," says UCSF epidemiologist Dr. George Rutherford. "That seems to me to be a pretty reasonable tradeoff.”
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