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Biden picks 3 coordinators for Covid-19 response The officials are set to play a major role in the president-elect's response to the worsening pandemic. From left, Bechara Choucair, senior vice president and chief health officer for Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Hospitals; Carole Johnson, commissioner for New Jersey Department of Human Services; and Tim Manning, director of Washington operations and senior adviser at Pacific Disaster Center. | Kaiser Permanente/New Jersey Department of Human Services/Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies Link Copied President-elect Joe...

Our Polluted Planet Environmental contamination claims 9 million lives a year, and it’s going to get much worse. So BC has hired the acclaimed epidemiologist and public health champion Philip Landrigan ’63 to launch a new program and take on this global killer. By Shannon Fischer In 1948, 20 people in Donora, Pennsylvania, died from a toxic smog that enveloped the mill town for five long days. Twenty-one years later, Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River, glutted with factory waste, burst into flame—and not for the first time, either. That was how it used to be in the United States: the city air...