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News Articles: coronavirus pandemic

Jerome Adams, who served as Trump's U.S. surgeon general, says he hopes that coming out of the pandemic, people can have a healthier respect for the scientific process.

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  • Health

Former U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams calls for masking 'compassion'

The U.S. needs to ensure everyone has an equitable chance to protect themselves, and if people don't have that opportunity, they need to be able to rely on others to be compassionate, he says.

April 28, 2022
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
Keris Myrick, right, who has schizophrenia, with her father, Dr. Howard Myrick.

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  • Mental Health

COVID and schizophrenia: Why this deadly mix can deepen understanding of the brain

People with schizophrenia are three times as likely to die from the virus, giving scientists an opportunity to study the potential relationship between the immune system and mental illness.

March 25, 2022
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  • April Dembosky
Nina Feldman, a reporter for member station WHYY in Philadelphia, had COVID-19 symptoms that persisted into what she calls "medium COVID."

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  • Health

People with 'medium COVID' are caught in a gray area of recovery with little support

Even if you don't have long COVID, it can still take weeks to recover — much longer than the isolation period implies. Millions of Americans are finding that this still majorly disrupts their lives.

March 18, 2022
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  • Nina Feldman
The landlord of the centuries-old Ye Olde Fighting Cocks pub, pictured last July, said last week that it would close, though there is hope it will reopen under new management.

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  • Europe

A pub that claims to be England's oldest could close its doors because of COVID

Ye Olde Fighting Cocks in St. Albans dates back to the 8th century, with a storied past featuring medieval pigeons, Oliver Cromwell and tunnels once traversed by monks. Now its future is uncertain.

February 08, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Pennsylvania's acting Secretary of Health Keara Klinepeter walks from a news conference at Grandview Health in Sellersville, Pa., on Jan. 24.

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  • Health

900,000 Americans have died of COVID in 2 years of the global pandemic

The U.S. death rate from COVID-19 continues to increase daily, as the rolling seven-day average for daily COVID-19 deaths has been above 2,000 since Jan. 23.

February 04, 2022
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin and
  • Rob Stein
A man wearing a face mask walks past a "Now Hiring" sign in front of a store on Jan. 13, in Arlington, Va. The labor market is showing resilience despite a recent spike in omicron-related coronavirus infections.

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  • Economy

In a big surprise, the job market surged in January even as omicron cases spiked

U.S. employers added 467,000 jobs last month despite a surge of coronavirus infections. The unemployment rose to 4% from 3.9% in December.

February 04, 2022
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By:
  • Scott Horsley
A man cries over his mother's grave in the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery, in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, on Sept. 29, 2020. Iris Gonçalves Alves died at age 54 the previous day from COVID-19, according to the information on her burial record. During the worst times of the pandemic in Manaus, only three relatives could attend a burial in its cemeteries.

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  • Photography

What happens when isolation goes beyond a pandemic

Photographer Raphael Alves documented how socioeconomic issues worsen the COVID-19 pandemic in the state of Amazonas, Brazil.

January 17, 2022
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  • Raphael Alves and
  • Marco Storel
A man cries over his mother's grave in the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery, in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, on Sept. 29, 2020. Iris Gonçalves Alves died at age 54 the previous day from COVID-19, according to the information on her burial record. During the worst times of the pandemic in Manaus, only three relatives could attend a burial in its cemeteries.

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  • Photography

What happens when isolation goes beyond a pandemic

Photographer Raphael Alves documented how socioeconomic issues worsen the COVID-19 pandemic in the state of Amazonas, Brazil.

January 17, 2022
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By:
  • Raphael Alves and
  • Marco Storel
Consumer prices — including gas — are surging at their highest annual pace in around 40 years.

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  • Economy

Inflation is still surging and some Democrats see one culprit: Greedy companies

Consumer prices are soaring at their highest annual pace in almost 40 years. Some progressives such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren blame corporate profiteering, but most economists scoff.

January 12, 2022
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  • Scott Horsley
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  • Climate

Cyber risks add to climate threat, World Economic Forum warns

Survey of 1,000 experts and leaders finds cybersecurity and space add to the existing challenges of climate change and the coronavirus pandemic.

January 11, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Women wearing face masks to protect against COVID-19 look at their smartphones at a public park in Beijing Wednesday. China is reporting a major drop in local COVID-19 infections in the northern city of Xi'an, which has been under a tight lockdown for the past two weeks.

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  • Asia

Residents of Xi'an, China, react to COVID lockdowns with outrage and humor

Lockdowns are so strict and so prolonged in the Chinese city that residents have taken to social media to complain and joke about a lack of basic supplies.

January 05, 2022
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  • Emily Feng and
  • Aowen Cao
A member of the Salt Lake County Health Department COVID-19 testing staff walks past a line outside the department on Tuesday. The number of new COVID019 cases hit a record this week, topping numbers from January.

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  • Health

The U.S. hits a record number of new COVID cases

The seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases topped 280,000 this week as the omicron variant spreads rapidly across the country, according to Johns Hopkins University's tracker.

December 29, 2021
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  • Deepa Shivaram
Costumers gather for food and drinks at Time Out Market in Lisbon, Portugal.

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  • World

Portugal has one of the top vaccination rates but isn't taking chances with omicron

Scientists are watching how Portugal and other highly vaccinated countries are faring against the coronavirus' new omicron variant.

December 15, 2021
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By:
  • Joanna Kakissis
Members of the Black Equity Coalition, a grassroots team of researchers and advocates, meet regularly to discuss how they can use data to uncover life-threatening disparities between white and Black Pittsburgh. Clockwise, from top left are Kellie Ware, Karen Abrams, Tiffany Gary-Webb, Mark Lewis and Fred Brown.

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  • Health

Data analysts proved what Black Pittsburgh knew about COVID's racial disparities

Community leaders saw early in the pandemic that the city's residents of color were being hit hard by COVID-19. They worked with data analysts to show just how hard, where and why.

December 07, 2021
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  • Christine Spolar
Restaurants, like this McDonald's in Miami Beach, Fla., have been big engines of job growth.

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  • Economy

Hiring slowed sharply in November, even before omicron, with 210,000 jobs added

Hiring slowed sharply last month, even as the unemployment rate fell to 4.2%. Data from the Labor Department suggest the economy was losing steam even before the appearance of a new COVID-19 variant.

December 03, 2021
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  • Scott Horsley
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