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Health

Map illustrates how frequently states report COVID-19 data each week

Data visualization

Many states abandon daily reporting of COVID data

Published Aug 17, 2021

Despite new COVID-19 cases exceeding 900,000 last week, 36 states do not update their pandemic data every day, causing significant data gaps for public health agencies and officials

Q+A

The present and future of masking

Published Aug 16, 2021

Periodic mask-wearing is here to stay, but basic risk assessment skills can help us weigh the pros and cons of ever-changing conditions

Parenting

Back-to-school in the new normal

Published Aug 3, 2021

It's time for families to start inching toward a return to social interactions and school routines to keep anxiety at bay

Biomedical engineering

New tool predicts sudden death in inflammatory heart disease

Published Aug 2, 2021

Johns Hopkins method outperforms previous approaches for assessing risk in cardiac sarcoidosis

Four masked people stand outside a mobile vaccination clinic

Community

Destination: Vaccination

Published July 30, 2021

Every Thursday, Johns Hopkins teams up with the Baltimore City Health Department and the city's chapter of the NAACP to offer free COVID-19 vaccinations to Baltimoreans

Profile

From Olympic swimmer to pandemic responder

Published July 29, 2021

Silver-medal swimmer Tara Kirk Sell now wages a battle against both COVID-19 spread and the misinformation surrounding the virus

Cancer research

Startup founders from Johns Hopkins aim to stop spread of cancer

Published July 28, 2021

AbMeta Therapeutics, launched by biologist and Provost Denis Wirtz, bioengineer Jamie Spangler, and clinician Elizabeth Jaffee, will combine years of pioneering research to create new drugs that target metastasis

Environment

An expert look at natural resource management

Published July 23, 2021

In special feature published in 'PNAS,' Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Paul Ferraro demonstrates how sound science can help communities better manage finite resources