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Kate Wells is a Peabody-winning reporter currently covering public health at Michigan Public, and part of the national health reporting collab between NPR and KFF Health News.

Jay Bennett is a science writer based in Copenhagen. He previously worked as a science editor at National Geographic, Smithsonian and Popular Mechanics.

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