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    Coronavirus Updates
    German Chancellor Angela Merkel puts on her face mask after a news conference in Berlin last week. Germany has introduced new requirements for medical-grade masks to be worn on public transit and in shops.
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    Some European Countries Move To Require Medical-Grade Masks In Public

    Jan 26, 2021
    Germany, Austria and France have announced new measures that push fabric masks aside. European leaders have tied the policy changes to efforts to fend off fast-spreading coronavirus variants.
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    National

    Biden Announces Plans To Boost COVID-19 Vaccine Supply

    Jan 26, 2021
    On Tuesday, President Biden announced a plan to boost the COVID-19 vaccine supply by 20% over the next three weeks and by hundreds of millions of doses by summer.
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    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis watches as nurse Christine Philips (left) administers the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19 to Vera Leip, 88, a resident of John Knox Village, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020, in Pompano Beach, Fla.
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    Florida's Vaccine Rollout Rife With Snags And Inequities

    Jan 26, 2021
    Gov. Ron DeSantis is touting the success of his policy providing COVID-19 vaccines to everyone 65 years and older in the state. But critics say the vaccine distribution favors some groups over others.
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    Coronavirus Updates
    Pre-kindergarten students listen as their teacher reads a story at Dawes Elementary School in Chicago on Jan. 11.
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    CDC Makes Case For School Reopening

    Jan 26, 2021
    Federal researchers say, with proper safety precautions, schools don't seem to fuel outbreaks, with some exceptions, such as indoor sports practices.
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    Coronavirus Updates
    A field hospital tent stands outside the emergency department of the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital earlier this month in Los Angeles. California is returning to a tiered restriction system.
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    California Health Secretary On Lifting Stay-At-Home Orders And Vaccinations

    Jan 26, 2021
    California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly talked with NPR about why the state eased some COVID-19 restrictions and addressed the relatively slow vaccine rollout.
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    Nursing Homes Offer Financial Incentives To Encourage Staff To Get COVID-19 Vaccine

    Jan 26, 2021
    Only 30% to 60% of nursing home staff have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, a recent survey finds. Some facilities are providing financial incentives to encourage more to get shots.
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    Mental Health

    Biden Administration Criticized For Delay In Tackling Opioid Crisis

    Jan 26, 2021
    More than 200 Americans are dying from drug overdoses daily. Now the Biden administration faces criticism for reportedly delaying a Trump administration policy widely seen as a way to help save lives.
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    Opinion: Why I'm An Invisible Man In The Global Vaccine Campaign

    Jan 26, 2021
    Nigerian physician Ifeanyi Nsofor writes: "I was elated when the first COVID-19 vaccine was shown to be effective. ...My joy was cut short when richer Western nations began buying up the vaccine doses."
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    A Writer Lost His Singing Voice, Then Discovered The 'Gymnastics' Of Speech

    Jan 26, 2021
    New Yorker writer John Colapinto developed a vocal polyp when he began "wailing" with a rock group without proper warmup. His new book explores the human voice's physicality, frailty and feats .
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    Coronavirus Updates
    Stella Kyriakides, European commissioner for health and food safety, said that in the future all companies producing COVID-19 vaccines in the EU "will have to provide early notification whenever they want to export vaccines to third countries."
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    European Union Warns AstraZeneca Over Reduction In Vaccine Shipments

    Jan 26, 2021
    "The companies must deliver. They must honor their obligations," the European Commission's president said after both AstraZeneca and Pfizer said they were experiencing shipping issues.
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    California, Nation's Most Populous State, Struggles With Vaccine Rollout

    Jan 26, 2021
    California has lifted regional stay-at-home orders, citing improved Coronavirus numbers. But that good news is tempered by ongoing problems with the state's vaccine rollout.
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    Health Workers Still Face Shortages Of Critical Medical Supplies

    Jan 26, 2021
    Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, personal protective equipment, or PPE, has been in short supply. Exam gloves currently top the ever-changing list. What's holding up the supply?
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    Turkey Struggles During Pandemic To Protect Public Health, Economy

    Jan 26, 2021
    Turkey says it has vaccinated more than a million front-line workers against COVID-19, and is now vaccinating people in their 80s. The country is hard hit — even as weekend lockdowns continue.
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    The Coronavirus Crisis
    Lights placed as a memorial to COVID-19 victims surround the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Jan. 19. Some economists believe deaths tied to alcohol use, drug use and suicides have risen during the pandemic as the isolation felt by many has taken an
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    They Lost Sons To Drug Overdoses: How The Pandemic May Be Fueling Deaths Of Despair

    Jan 26, 2021
    As drug overdose deaths rise during the pandemic, a former White House economist says social isolation could be partly to blame.
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    In California, The Last Of Pandemic Stay-At-Home Orders Are Lifted

    Jan 26, 2021
    California has ended the final three regional stay-at-home orders — citing a decrease in projected new COVID-19 cases. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Dr. Mark Ghaly, the state's health secretary.
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    Shots - Health News
    Suzan Mubarak and her boyfriend, Mitch Domier, live only a few miles apart in Bozeman, Mont., yet the pandemic has limited their ability to see each other in person.
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    The Pandemic Made Their Love Long Distance — From Just A Few Miles Apart

    Jan 26, 2021
    Everyone is trying to figure out how relationships work in the pandemic. That includes a couple keeping their love alive, ever since their group homes for adults with disabilities went into lockdown.
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    Coronavirus Updates
    Protesters threw fireworks and rocks at police, damaged storefronts and looted stores during demonstrations on Monday in the Netherlands.
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    Anti-Curfew Protests Flare Up In The Netherlands

    Jan 26, 2021
    At least 150 people were reportedly arrested amid violent protests against coronavirus restrictions.
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    Coronavirus Updates
    A new variant of the coronavirus first discovered in Brazil was detected in Minneapolis, Minn. The variant is believed to be more transmissible and could possibly infect those who previously contracted the virus.
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    A New Coronavirus Variant From Brazil, Is Found In Minnesota

    Jan 25, 2021
    A Twin Cities resident contracted a new variant of the coronavirus after traveling to Brazil. The new strain is believed to be more transmissible.
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    Coronavirus Updates
    One of the eight gorillas in the troop at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in California. Some of the gorillas contracted the coronavirus this month. One of the older gorillas received monoclonal antibody therapy as part of his treatment.
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    Gorilla Gets Monoclonal Antibody Therapy For COVID-19

    Jan 25, 2021
    An older silverback gorilla in Escondido, Calif., received an array of treatments after it and others in its troop contracted the coronavirus. The therapy came from a supply meant for nonhumans.
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    Coronavirus Updates
    South Dakota has given out about 75% of the vaccine doses it's received, a high rate among states.
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    South Dakota Health Leader On How The State Has Gotten Its Vaccine Out

    Jan 25, 2021
    South Dakota has administered roughly 80,000 of the 106,000 doses it has received so far, or 75%. Dr. Shankar Kurra in Rapid City says a centralized system helped for coordination.
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    Goats and Soda
    World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was one of many global health leaders who spoke bluntly about the coronavirus pandemic at annual meetings that conclude on Tuesday. Discussing the lack of priority given to vaccines fo
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    'Everything Broke': Global Health Leaders On What Went Wrong In The Pandemic

    Jan 25, 2021
    Six takeaways from discussions at the annual meeting of the World Health Organization's Executive Board.
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    Health
    Residents of Protection, Kan., gathered in the high school gym to receive polio shots on April 2, 1957. The mass inoculation event was staged by the March of Dimes, then known as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
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    In Tiny Kansas Town, Pandemic Skeptics Abound Amid False Information And Politics

    Jan 25, 2021
    In 1957, residents of the southwestern town Protection set an example by being the first in the U.S. to be fully inoculated against polio. Now locals are divided on the safety of COVID-19 vaccines.
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    Coronavirus Updates
    The Chicago Teachers Union voted on Sunday to continue remote work only, in defiance of the school district's plans for K-8 teachers and staff to return to classrooms this week. Here, a sign in front of Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School in Septem
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    Chicago Said Teachers Needed To Return In Person. The Teachers Voted No

    Jan 25, 2021
    After the union vote, the district said it had pushed back the return of K-8 teachers and staff until Wednesday to "ensure we reach a resolution without a disruption to student learning."
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    Coronavirus Updates
    Clinicians care for COVID-19 patients last week in a makeshift intensive care unit at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, Calif. California is lifting regional stay-at-home orders, but county and local authorities can keep other restrictions in place
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    California Lifts Stay-At-Home Orders: 'Light At The End Of The Tunnel'

    Jan 25, 2021
    State health officials are breathing a sigh of relief. But they are also cautious: More than 40 million Californians live in counties where COVID-19 risk is deemed "widespread."
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    Coronavirus Updates
    Moderna will test new COVID-19 vaccine boosters, saying that while its vaccine should protect against variants found in the U.K. and South Africa, it isn't as effective against one strain.  Here, a bus in London carries a sign telling people, "Act Like Y
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    Moderna Finds COVID-19 Vaccine Still Protects Against Emerging Strains

    Jan 25, 2021
    In a new round of tests, the drug company wants to see if booster doses of its vaccine will ramp up defenses against emerging strains of the coronavirus.

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