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Dan Vergano

Dan Vergano

Science Reporter at BuzzFeed - Washington Bureau

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Dan Vergano
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The US Government Now Has 400 Official Reports Of UFOs But Congress Wants You To Know There’s Sti...

“Unidentified aerial phenomena are a potential national security threat, and they need to be treated that way,” the committee chairperson said.
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College Football Referees Penalized Teams With Black Coaches More O...

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.
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A Possible Senate Change To CDC Leadership Has Public Health Expert...

“This is a really bad idea,” one public health expert said. “It just creates an opportunity for people to grandstand.”
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Here’s What The Overdose Death Trial Of Major League Baseball Pitch...

“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.
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Omicron May Be “Milder,” But It’s Making More People Sick Than Ever...

“It’s going to get worse before it gets better,” one doctor said.
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The CDC Blames Contamination And Design Flaws For Its First Failed ...

“It felt like we were driving blind, and we really were a little bit,” one expert said.
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A Former Principal Now In Congress Thinks Democrats Need A New Mess...

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.

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US Overdose Deaths Now Exceed 100,000 Annually - BuzzFeed News

“The question is: When will it end?” one expert asked.
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The Biden Administration Is Rejecting “The War On Drugs” And Turnin...

“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.”
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US Intelligence Agencies Are Trying To Solve Scientific Mysteries A...

Secret intelligence reports are offering up answers to three big scientific mysteries — but the speculation doesn’t always square up with science.
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A New Study Suggests Empty Middle Seats On Planes Reduce COVID Expo...

Airlines have returned to filling middle seats, which a new CDC study suggests increases the risk of coronavirus exposure.
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Has Landed On Mars To Search For Signs Of...

“Based on everything we know about Mars in the past, it absolutely should have been capable of supporting ancient life,” one NASA scientist said.
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Scientists Are Slamming A Report Saying Microwave Attacks Could Hav...

“The report does not make a coherent argument why microwaves should be involved,” one critic said.
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Pfizer Is Submitting The First US Coronavirus Vaccine To The FDA Fo...

If authorized, healthcare workers and vulnerable groups might start getting the two-shot vaccine before the end of the year.
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More Americans Are In The Hospital With COVID-19 Than Ever Before -...

More than 60,000 Americans are currently hospitalized with COVID-19. Several states and cities are reporting ICUs are at full capacity.
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USPS Delays Are Causing People To Get Their Prescriptions Late - Bu...

“A lot of people are getting hurt by this senseless act.”
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The CDC Lost Control Of The Coronavirus Pandemic. Then The Agency D...

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.
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Internal FDA Documents Show How Little Evidence The Agency Had Befo...

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.
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These Kids With Rare Genetic Diseases Were Part Of Research Into Ne...

“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.”
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The Report Claiming That A Dead Body Spread The Coronavirus Was Jus...

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.
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A Coronavirus Pandemic Is Looking A Lot More Likely. Here's What Th...

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.