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Why many more people are lining up for a flu shot than a Covid vaccine

Americans who regularly get a flu shot are just the type of people you’d expect would routinely get vaccinated against Covid. Yet as the statistics reveal, even many of them appear to have declined the latest booster. Read more.

By Helen Branswell

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Zyn scrutiny from Sen. Chuck Schumer prompts an unlikely culture war

After Sen. Chuck Schumer raised concerns about Zyn nicotine pouches, conservatives sounded off. What could the government actually do? STAT walks through three burning questions about the ongoing controversy over Zyn. Read more.

By Nicholas Florko

More great reads from STAT this week

• Opinion: After 20 years in rehabilitation research, my young daughter’s traumatic brain injury transformed my mind and my career
• In ‘march-in’ rights, some see a tool to lower drug prices. Others see a threat to intellectual property
• ‘The response defies belief’: Year of inaction leaves children at risk from bad cancer drugs
• A Harvard course seeks to put food on the table in medical education