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We should learn from Ohio’s train disaster
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
FAYE FLAM - Tribune News Service 
February 21, 2023
If things had gone a bit differently, the chemicals on the train that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, could have exploded, killing people on the spo...
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Another sign of inequality: minutes spent waiting
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
FAYE FLAM - Tribune News Service 
February 16, 2023
We’ve waited far too long for a scientific study of waiting. From queues to telephone holds to waiting rooms, delays are all around us and they’re mis...
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Bird flu outbreak is a wake-up call for agriculture
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
FAYE FLAM - Tribune News Service 
February 9, 2023
Perhaps we can blame COVID fatigue for numbing us to the risks of other viruses. But it should be bigger news that a bird flu has mutated to spread th...
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Evidence mounting that COVID is bad for the brain
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
FAYE FLAM - Tribune News Service 
January 30, 2023
The possibility that a COVID infection could damage your brain is terrifying. Scientists have established that long COVID often manifests itself with ...
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No, vaccines aren’t making new COVID variants worse
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
FAYE FLAM - Tribune News Service 
January 8, 2023
A new COVID-19 variant called XBB.1.5 is driving a new wave of infections. But susceptibility to it is not, as some contend, being fueled by vaccines....
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The tragedy of avoidable COVID deaths
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
FAYE FLAM - Tribune News Service 
December 7, 2022
Whose pandemic strategy really saved lives? Which states or countries lost the most people to the virus? Or to the unintended consequences of mitigati...
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The real reasons your family is sick right now
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
FAYE FLAM - Tribune News Service 
November 29, 2022
Something is altering the normal seasonal currents of cold and flu viruses. They slowed to a trickle during the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic on...
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Even a small nuclear war would mean mass famine
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
FAYE FLAM - Tribune News Service 
November 20, 2022
This century’s worst-case climate scenario isn’t global warming of 4 or even 5 degrees Celsius. It’s a nuclear winter that would trigger global coolin...
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