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  • Global Health

Our 11 most-read global pandemic stories of 2021

From India to Israel to white-tailed deer in Iowa harboring the coronavirus, our top COVID stories of the year reveal the ever-changing nature of the world's health crisis.

December 19, 2021
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By:
  • Malaka Gharib
The arrival of the omicron variant in New York City has resulted in a rise in cases and the return of long lines for COVID testing. It has many people comparing this December to March 2020 when the pandemic began.

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  • Health

Omicron is spreading. Dr. Ashish Jha answers 9 questions about it and what you can do

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University School of Public Health, about safely navigating the holidays amid rising COVID case numbers.

December 18, 2021
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By:
  • Mary Louise Kelly,
  • Ayen Bior,
  • and 2 more
At a White House event on October 14, President Joe Biden encouraged states and businesses to support vaccine mandates to avoid a surge in cases of Covid-19.

Tagged as: 

  • Business

Biden's vaccine-or-test rule for 84 million workers is back after court lifts stay

The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals said the costs of delaying implementation of the vaccine rule would be high. Employers have until Feb. 9 to comply with the testing requirement.

December 18, 2021
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
Bibb County school board

Tagged as: 

  • Education

Bibb Schools to hire more virtual teachers amid shortage

The teacher shortage is not a new dilemma, but one that has worsened in recent years in schools across the country. A myriad of factors are at the root of the shortage including fewer college students studying to become educators.

December 18, 2021
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By:
  • Laura Corley
Sikhulile Moyo, the laboratory director at the Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership and a research associate with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, headed the team that identified the omicron variant.

Tagged as: 

  • Global Health

The scientist in Botswana who identified omicron was saddened by the world's reaction

He and his team were stunned by the number of mutations. They felt they'd made a contribution by alerting the world to a dangerous variant. Then came the travel bans for residents of southern Africa.

December 17, 2021
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By:
  • Melody Schrieber
A colorized scanning-electron-microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (the round blue objects) emerging from cells cultured in the lab. SARS-CoV-2 is the coronavirus that causes the disease COVID-19.

Tagged as: 

  • Global Health

A tantalizing clue to why omicron is spreading so quickly

A new study from the University of Hong Kong offers preliminary information that could explain why this new coronavirus variant may be more transmissible.

December 16, 2021
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By:
  • Michaeleen Doucleff
When students at Stanford University return to campus in January, they'll be barred from holding parties or other big gatherings for two weeks.

Tagged as: 

  • Education

Colleges go back to drawing board — again — to fight COVID

Many colleges are telling students to prepare for another term of masking, testing and, if cases get bad, limits around social life.

December 16, 2021
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By:
  • The Associated Press
A sign is displayed at a COVID-19 vaccine site in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco on Feb. 8, 2021. California is exempting San Francisco from a rule that takes effect requiring all people to wear masks indoors.

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  • Health

California allows San Francisco to maintain existing COVID-19 masking rules

Starting Wednesday, a statewide mask mandate was back in effect, but vaccinated San Francisco residents will be allowed to go without face coverings inside gyms and workplaces.

December 15, 2021
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin
A sign is displayed at a COVID-19 vaccine site in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco on Feb. 8, 2021. California is exempting San Francisco from a rule that takes effect requiring all people to wear masks indoors.

Tagged as: 

  • Health

California allows San Francisco to maintain existing COVID-19 masking rules

Starting Wednesday, a statewide mask mandate was back in effect, but vaccinated San Francisco residents will be allowed to go without face coverings inside gyms and workplaces.

December 15, 2021
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin
Police stand in front of protesters during a demonstration of Germany's "Querdenker" (Lateral Thinkers) movement in November, in Leipzig, eastern Germany.

Tagged as: 

  • Europe

German police move against an alleged murder plot by anti-vaccination extremists

The police conducted raids in the city of Dresden and the nearby town of Heidenau come after a group allegedly organized online to kill Saxony's state premier, Michael Kretschmer.

December 15, 2021
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
Costumers gather for food and drinks at Time Out Market in Lisbon, Portugal.

Tagged as: 

  • 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
Cornell University announced the closing of its Ithaca, N.Y., campus due to a rise in cases of the omicron variant of the coronavirus.

Tagged as: 

  • Education

Cornell shuts down its Ithaca campus after significant signs of omicron variant found

The campus reported nearly 500 new cases of COVID-19 among the student body. The new omicron variant was detected "in a significant number" of positive tests, the university said.

December 14, 2021
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin
Dean Ayers, Terry College of Business UGA

Tagged as: 

  • Business

Economist sees full recovery for Georgia next year

Georgia’s economy will bounce back from the coronavirus pandemic next year, despite inflation and the latest COVID-19 variant, the dean of the business school at the University of Georgia predicted Monday.

December 14, 2021
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By:
  • Dave Williams
Tammi Brown, Chatham County Health Department Nurse Manager, was among the first in Georgia to receive the vaccine against COVID-19, as Memorial University Medical Center emergency room nurse David Wilson awaits another dose and Gov. Brian Kemp and State Sen. Ben Watson look on.

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  • Health

The first COVID-19 shots arrived a year ago. Just 50% of Georgians are fully vaccinated

Public health and government officials sighed with relief when COVID-19 vaccinations came to Coastal Georgia last December. The first 84,000 doses were set aside for those working in health care, including Dr. Kathleen Toomey, the commissioner for the Georgia Department of Public Health.  

She spoke after receiving her first shot, saying vaccination felt like the "light at the end of a tunnel" after a long, hard year.

December 14, 2021
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
GPB News NPR

Tagged as: 

  • National Security

Air Force discharges 27 for refusing to get COVID vaccine

The Pentagon earlier this year required the vaccine for all members of the military, including active duty, National Guard and the Reserves.

December 14, 2021
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By:
  • The Associated Press
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