Dan Vergano

College football teams with Black coaches average around five to seven more penalties per season than teams with white coaches, regardless of team or school quality.

“This is a really bad idea,” one public health expert said. “It just creates an opportunity for people to grandstand.”

“One important way to understand what happened in the case of this tragic overdose death of a professional athlete is to recognize it as yet another tragic example … of what American society at large has been suffering through,” an addiction treatment expert said.

“It’s going to get worse before it gets better,” one doctor said.

“It felt like we were driving blind, and we really were a little bit,” one expert said.

Rep. Jamaal Bowman, a Democrat and part of the Squad, sat down for a Q&A with BuzzFeed News to discuss possible vaccine mandates in schools.

“The question is: When will it end?” one expert asked.

“To have the Office of National Drug Control Policy talking about ‘harm reduction’ is important,” said one public health expert. “I remember when you couldn’t say those words there.”

Secret intelligence reports are offering up answers to three big scientific mysteries — but the speculation doesn’t always square up with science.

Airlines have returned to filling middle seats, which a new CDC study suggests increases the risk of coronavirus exposure.

“Based on everything we know about Mars in the past, it absolutely should have been capable of supporting ancient life,” one NASA scientist said.

“The report does not make a coherent argument why microwaves should be involved,” one critic said.

If authorized, healthcare workers and vulnerable groups might start getting the two-shot vaccine before the end of the year.

More than 60,000 Americans are currently hospitalized with COVID-19. Several states and cities are reporting ICUs are at full capacity.

“A lot of people are getting hurt by this senseless act.”

The world’s premier health agency pushed a flawed coronavirus containment strategy — until it disappeared from public view one day before the outbreak was declared a pandemic.

A May whistleblower complaint alleged that the FDA’s emergency authorization of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine came about as a result of political pressure from the White House.

“All of our labs are shut down, and as a result the precious little time my son has left is being wasted,” said one mother. “So I guess I would say the cost of this is the lives of children.”

A previous report by two Thai scientists suggested that the coronavirus had spread from a corpse. A correction said the original letter was poorly written and had resulted in misinterpretation.

WHO is still declining to declare the outbreak a pandemic, indicating that the COVID-19 illness has spread worldwide. A pandemic would not mean that the disease has become any more deadly.