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Elizabeth Cooney is a general assignment reporter at STAT. She joined STAT in 2017, previously serving as STAT+ editor. Prior to that, she was the Boston Globe's inaugural White Coat Notes blogger, before moving on to science writing and editing stints at Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. Elizabeth focuses on cancer, biomedical engineering, and how patients feel the effects of Covid-19.