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Riley Judd, a student at the University of Denver and a legislative intern, gives testimony during a Colorado Senate hearing on measures to address eating disorders Thursday, March 23, 2023, in the State Capitol in Denver. Lawmakers in states including Colorado, California, Texas and New York are taking big legislative swings at the eating disorder crisis that is bedeviling America's populous. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Surge in eating disorders spurs state legislative action

Lawmakers in states including California, Colorado, Texas and New York are taking big, legislative swings at the eating disorder crisis.

FILE - Deleah Payne, 12, center, spends time with her mother Delisa, right, and 6-year-old sister Delynn, left, as they watch movie clips on their living room television in Evansville, Ind., Tuesday evening, Aug. 27, 2019. Deleah and Delynn were both diagnosed with autism. For the first time, autism is being diagnosed more frequently in Black and Hispanic children than in white kids in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday, March 23, 2023. (Sam Owens/Evansville Courier & Press via AP, File)

Autism is now more common among Black and Latino kids in the U.S.

This photo provided by researchers in March 2023, shows the Stumpff Lock, from composer Ludwig van Beethoven, in a laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Germany. Hundreds of years after Beethoven's death, researchers have pulled DNA from strands of his hair — and found clues about what killed him, according to a study published Wednesday March 22, 2023. (Anthi Tiliakou via AP)

What made Beethoven sick? DNA from his hair offers clues

FILE - This undated photo made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a strain of Candida auris cultured in a petri dish at a CDC laboratory. In a CDC paper published by the Annals of Internal Medicine on Monday, March 20, 2023, U.S. cases of the dangerous fungus tripled over just three years, and more than half of states have now reported it. (Shawn Lockhart/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via AP, File)

Potentially deadly fungus spreading rapidly across California, CDC says

FILE - An elderly patient receives an intravenous drip while using a ventilator in the hallway of the emergency ward in Beijing, Jan. 5, 2023. China's sudden reopening after two years holding to a "zero-COVID" strategy left older people vulnerable and hospitals and pharmacies unprepared during the season when the virus spreads most easily, leading to many avoidable deaths, The Associated Press has found. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

Ignoring experts, China’s sudden zero-COVID exit cost lives

President Joe Biden speaks during a Nowruz celebration in the East Room of the White House, Monday, March 20, 2023, in Washington. Biden signed a bipartisan bill on Monday, March 20, 2023, that directs the federal government to declassify as much intelligence as possible about the origins of COVID-19 more than three years after the start of the global pandemic. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden signs bill to declassify information on COVID origins

FILE - Pakistani women wade through floodwaters as they take refuge in Shikarpur district of Sindh Province, of Pakistan, Sept. 2, 2022. A major new United Nations report being released Monday, March 20, 2023, is expected to provide a sobering reminder that time is running out if humanity wants to avoid passing a dangerous global warming threshold. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan, File)

World on ‘thin ice’: U.N. climate report gives stark warning

LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 23, 2022: Jeremy Oyague, right, a registered nurse with The Los Angeles Department of Public Health, administers a COVID booster at a vaccination clinic to immunize people against monkeypox and COVID at The Village Mental Health Services in Los Angeles, a site run by The People Concern. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

How immune are we? Why answering this question is essential for post-pandemic life

FILE - In this May 7, 2020 file photo, a pregnant woman wearing a face mask and gloves holds her belly as she waits in line for groceries at St. Mary's Church in Waltham, Mass. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged all pregnant women Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021 to get the COVID-19 vaccine as hospitals in hot spots around the U.S. see disturbingly high numbers of unvaccinated mothers-to-be seriously ill with the virus. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, file)

Maternal deaths surged during the pandemic. How California is fighting that trend

The coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2, shown in purple, infects a cell, colored in green.

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Covid-19 Pandemic and the Coronavirus

Raccoon dogs are seen at a cage in Tokyo's Ueno Zoo.

New COVID origins data point to raccoon dogs in China market

Scientists have found raccoon dog DNA commingled with the coronavirus in samples from the Huanan seafood market in Wuhan in early 2020.

A box of ivermectin is shown in a pharmacy as pharmacists work in the background.

California’s COVID misinformation law is entangled in lawsuits, conflicting rulings

A person holds the drug Paxlovid from the U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer against Covid-19.

COVID-19 pill Paxlovid moves closer to full FDA approval

FILE - A person is taken on a stretcher into the United Memorial Medical Center after going through testing for COVID-19 Thursday, March 19, 2020, in Houston. On the third anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2023, the virus is still spreading and the death toll is nearing 7 million worldwide. Yet most people have resumed their normal lives, thanks to a wall of immunity built from infections and vaccines. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

COVID-19 pandemic three years later: Has the coronavirus won?

FILE - This 2020 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, which cause COVID-19. The House voted unanimously Friday, March 10, 2023, to declassify U.S. intelligence information about the origins of COVID-19, a sweeping show of bipartisan support near the third anniversary of the start of the deadly pandemic. (Hannah A. Bullock, Azaibi Tamin/CDC via AP, File)

House votes to declassify information about origins of COVID-19

The coronavirus has infected New York City’s rats. Why that’s bad news for people

Opinion: I called for more research on the COVID ‘lab leak theory.’ Here’s what I found out

Scientists hope viruses hiding out in patients hold answers to long COVID

Abcarian: Mask mandates? COVID origins? Why are we still having these debates?

Covid-19 Vaccines

FILE - President-elect Joe Biden receives his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine from Nurse partitioner Tabe Mase at Christiana Hospital in Newark Del., on Dec. 21, 2020, from nurse practitioner. Biden’s order that federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19 was blocked Thursday, March 23, 2023, by a federal appeals court. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Court blocks COVID-19 vaccine mandate for U.S. government workers

The White House is defending President Biden’s order that federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19 after a federal appeals court blocked it.

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