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Have You Been Evicted During The Pandemic, Or Afraid Of Losing Your Home?

NPR wants to hear from you if you have lost income and couldn't pay rent to your landlord or needed a mortgage forbearance.

January 06, 2021
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By:
  • Chris Arnold
A coronavirus outbreak occurred at the Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center's emergency department, with 44 staff members testing positive for the virus between Dec. 27 and Jan. 3.

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  • Health

Costume May Have Contributed To An Outbreak At California Hospital, Infecting 44

Hospital officials in San Jose are investigating whether an inflatable costume contributed to an emergency department outbreak. One hospital employee died after testing positive for the coronavirus.

January 04, 2021
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By:
  • Reese Oxner
Housing activists protest evictions in Massachusetts, which recently allowed its sweeping statewide eviction ban to expire. That leaves residents with only a much weaker eviction protection order from the Centers for Disease Control and prevention.

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  • National

Why The CDC Eviction Ban Isn't Really A Ban: 'I Have Nowhere To Go'

Families are getting put out on the street despite an eviction protection order from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Advocates say the order needs to be extended and strengthened.

December 20, 2020
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By:
  • Chris Arnold
Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine has been tested for safety and efficacy in more than 44,000 people. Still, stopping viral spread will take more than immunizations, says the CDC. The agency is calling for those who are vaccinated to continue wearing masks and practicing safe physical distancing.

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  • Health

What You Need To Know As The First COVID-19 Vaccine Heads Your Way

States are starting to administer their first doses of Pfizer's newly FDA-authorized COVID-19 vaccine. It marks a new phase in the pandemic, but what's that mean for you?

December 15, 2020
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  • Joanne Silberner
Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., who chairs the House's panel on the coronavirus, warned that if the Department of Health and Human Services failed to produce all missing documents by Dec. 15, the panel "will have no choice but to issue subpoenas to compel production."

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  • National

House Oversight Committee Chair: Testimony Points To Political Interference At CDC

Rep. James Clyburn says the Trump Administration may have deliberately tried to "conceal and destroy evidence that senior political appointees interfered" with the CDC's coronavirus response.

December 10, 2020
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
Dr. Rochelle Walensky is President-elect Joe Biden's pick to head the CDC. Here, she speaks at a 2006 HIV conference in Washington, D.C.

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  • Politics

Biden Names Massachusetts Doctor To Lead CDC

Dr. Rochelle Walensky is an infectious disease expert and teaches at Harvard Medical School. She will replace Robert Redfield, the current director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

December 08, 2020
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By:
  • Brakkton Booker
Vice President Pence speaks Friday during a briefing on COVID-19 at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

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  • Politics

Pence Says It's A 'Season Of Hope,' While CDC Officials Warn Of COVID-19 Surge

Pence visited the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention to highlight promising vaccine developments, but he received a grim assessment of the current state of the pandemic in the U.S.

December 05, 2020
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By:
  • Tamara Keith
The doorway to Jones Hall is shown at Utah State University in September, where about 300 students were being quarantined to their rooms as a precaution.

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CDC Likely To Recommend Shortening Coronavirus Quarantine Period

Federal health officials could reduce the quarantine from the currently recommended 14 days to as few as seven for people who test negative for the virus.

November 25, 2020
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  • Rob Stein and
  • Scott Neuman
CDC director

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  • Health

Georgia Today: How The CDC Was Set Up To Fail During Pandemic

On Georgia Today, an inside look at how the CDC lost public trust amid an international health crisis — and how the repercussions of the organization’s unraveling could have long-lasting effects beyond the course of the pandemic.

November 20, 2020
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  • Steve Fennessy and
  • Pria Mahadevan
Some churches at the center of COVID-19 outbreaks have shunned attention or responded with defiance, while others have limited crowd sizes and encouraged congregants to wear masks and practice social distancing.

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  • National

Some Faith Leaders Defiant, Others Transparent Over COVID-19 Outbreaks

Many faith leaders may believe churches are singled out for blame, but one Baptist pastor in Maine called for safety precautions after members tested positive for the coronavirus.

November 19, 2020
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  • Patty Wight
The flawed coronavirus test kits went out to public laboratories in February. An internal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention review obtained by NPR says the wrong quality control protocols were used.

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  • Investigations

CDC Report: Officials Knew Coronavirus Test Was Flawed But Released It Anyway

An unreleased CDC review obtained by NPR shows that lab officials knew an early coronavirus test kit had a high failure rate. They decided not to recall it and sent it to the nation's labs anyway.

November 06, 2020
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  • Dina Temple-Raston
Tony Potts, a 69-year-old retiree living in Ormond Beach, Fla., receives his first injection earlier this year as a participant in a Phase 3 clinical trial of Moderna's COVID-19 candidate vaccine.

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  • Health

Advisers To CDC Debate How COVID-19 Vaccine Should Be Rolled Out

In advance of a COVID-19 vaccine being available, a group of independent medical advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention weighed Friday who should get the vaccine first and how.

October 30, 2020
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  • Joe Neel and
  • Pien Huang
Cruise ships are docked at the Port of Miami in the spring. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suspended cruises from U.S. ports in March after coronavirus outbreaks on a number of ships.

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  • National

Cruise Lines Can Sail Again From The U.S., But It's Not Clear How Soon

The federal government has given the go-ahead for cruise ships to sail from ports in the United States. Officials stopped cruise lines in March as the coronavirus pandemic ramped up.

October 30, 2020
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  • Greg Allen
Increasingly, many people in the U.S., like these teens in a Miami grocery story in August, now routinely wear face masks in public to help stop COVID-19's spread. But social distancing and other public health measures have been slower to catch on, especially among young adults, a national survey finds.

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  • Health

Mask-Wearing Is Up In The U.S., But Young People Are Still Too Lax, CDC Survey Finds

A general increase in mask-wearing has been encouraging, U.S. public health experts say. But too few young people, especially, are social distancing and taking other steps to slow coronavirus' spread.

October 27, 2020
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By:
  • Rob Stein
Shelly Groves receives a COVID-19 vaccine dose as part of the Moderna clinical trial at Emory University in August 2020.

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  • Health

Who Gets COVID-19 Vaccine First? Georgia Submits Distribution Plan

A COVID-19 vaccine may be approved before the end of the year. Moderna and Pfizer have candidates in Phase 3 clinical trials now. But the state health department and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say critical populations are first in line. That includes some health care workers and people with personal and social vunerabilities.

October 21, 2020
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  • Ellen Eldridge
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