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This piece originally appeared on The Conversation, which AllSides rates as Lean Left. It was written by Taylor Dotson, an Associate Professor of Social Science at New Mexico Tech. The writer's bias has not been rated.

Entering the new year, Americans are increasingly divided. They clash not only over differing opinions on COVID-19 risk or abortion, but basic facts like

The U.S. on Wednesday reported a record 36,880 new coronavirus cases more than two months after its previous record for daily infections, a signal that the country is struggling to contain the pandemic.

Wednesday's total is 2,000 more than on Tuesday, when 34,700 new cases of COVID-19 nationally were reported, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

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Ji Hyun came to the United States from South Korea to pursue her dream of becoming an intensive care unit nurse.

Now, she is one of many international students whose job prospects and legal immigration status are threatened by monthslong processing delays in U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services facilities.

Ji Hyun graduated from nursing school in December and secured a job

Whether you’re new to investing in pharmaceutical or biotechnology companies or simply paying close attention to the race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, questions may have occurred about how clinical trials work — here’s what you need to know to understand the process.

The first thing is that we’ve never seen vaccines developed as quickly as what is happening right now. It took a year