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ScienceWriters meeting will feature speakers from Pulitzer Center. Pulitzer Center grantees and Senior Strategist Steve Sapienza will participate in panel discussions on October 22 and 24, respectively, at the annual ScienceWriters meeting in Memphis, Tennessee. Registration is closed. Video from the events will be available after October 25. On October 22, grantees Jon Cohen and Jane Qiu will speak with educators, experts, and peer science journalists about the coverage of the origin of COVID-19. Qiu reported on the Wuhan wet market and virology lab as part of the project COVID-19 in China: t...

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We can’t stop Covid-19 from spreading without understanding the people who carry it. Why do so many people embrace Covid-19 misinformation? Does lack of health insurance discourage people from getting tested, even when testing is free? And what prevented doctors in Italy from sharing what they learned about oxygen levels, even though it could help predict which Covid patients were at the highest risk of dying? Four faculty members in the School of History and Sociology (HSOC) at Georgia Tech are examining these questions and more to help craft effective policy responses to the pandemic. “...