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Covid safety doesn’t have to be all or nothing: A guide to reading Covid-19 metrics in your county.

Tara Smith, Ph.D., is a professor of epidemiology at the Kent State University College of Public Health. She obtained her Ph.D. in microbiology at the University of Toledo and her B.S. in biology from Yale University. She spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow in infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Michigan, and nine years as an assistant and associate professor (with tenure) at the University of Iowa prior to moving to Kent State University in 2013. Dr. Smith’s research focuses on zoonotic infections (infections which are transferred between animals and humans), and she ...

Although cases are dropping again, that may not mean endemicity is on the horizon, especially if new variants are able to emerge.

In advance of a major rally in D.C., a look at how the anti-vaccine movement has capitalized on the coronavirus to spread a message that doctors and public health experts consider dangerous.

Scientists chart how a battle between fungus and bacteria living on the skin of hedgehogs led to the emergence of a strain of MRSA that can infect cows and humans.