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News Articles: COVID-19

A scene from <em>76 Days</em>, a new documentary about front-line health workers and patients during the lockdown in Wuhan, China.

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  • Movie Reviews

A Doc About Wuhan's Lockdown Was 'Too Real' For My Wuhan-Born Dad. I'm Glad I Watched

The reviewer's father, who was born in Wuhan, China, and lived there until he was 28, couldn't bear to keep watching. But she did — and was deeply moved by this new documentary film.

December 20, 2020
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  • Laura Gao
Washington, D.C., Fire and EMS Lt. Keishea Jackson gets a Pfizer coronavirus vaccine shot on Thursday.

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  • Medical Treatments

Maryland, Virginia To Send Extra COVID-19 Vaccine To D.C., Tripling Its Allotment

D.C.'s mayor urged the federal government to send more medicine to no avail. Now the states are sharing their supply to vaccinate health care workers who work in the capital but live elsewhere.

December 18, 2020
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  • Vanessa Romo
Federal regulators have granted an emergency use authorization to the vaccine developed by Moderna, whose Cambridge, Mass., headquarters are seen here.

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  • Medical Treatments

Moderna's COVID-19 Vaccine Becomes 2nd To Earn FDA Authorization

The Food and Drug Administration greenlights the biotech firm's vaccine for emergency use in the U.S. The move bolsters a vast inoculation effort that's already underway.

December 18, 2020
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  • Colin Dwyer
This map highlights what the government considers areas of concern around the country. Red counties are "sustained hotspots," with high sustained coronavirus caseloads and higher risk of health care capacity issues.

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  • Health

Newly Released COVID-19 Data Show Most U.S. Cities Are 'Sustained Hotspots'

A comprehensive dataset gives the American public the same view of the status of the pandemic that federal officials have but previously held back. The outlook is bleak.

December 18, 2020
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By:
  • Liz Essley Whyte
Katalin Karikó works at BioNTech, the company that partnered with Pfizer to make the first COVID-19 vaccine to get emergency authorization in the United States.

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  • National

If COVID-19 Vaccines Bring An End To The Pandemic, America Has Immigrants To Thank

Scientists and investors born outside the U.S. played crucial roles in the development of COVID-19 vaccines — a remarkable vindication for the argument that innovation depends on immigration.

December 18, 2020
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  • Joel Rose

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  • Global Health

Chart: COVID-19 Is Now Leading Killer In 5 Latin American Nations

Why are numbers so high in the region? Public health officials point to a number of underlying problems that let the coronavirus run amok.

December 18, 2020
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  • Jason Beaubien
A COVID-19 vaccine made by Moderna is next in line with the Food and Drug Administration for possible authorization for emergency use during the pandemic.

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  • Health

FDA Panel Recommends Moderna's COVID-19 Vaccine For Emergency Use

Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted 20-0 to recommend that the agency authorize Moderna's vaccine for emergency use during the pandemic. There was a single abstention.

December 18, 2020
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  • Scott Hensley
Kemp at funeral for DNR employee

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  • Health

At 1,000-Person Funeral, Gov. Kemp Flouted Own COVID-19 Guidelines

In the days after a pastor unknowingly spread COVID-19 at two funerals in Albany early this year, Gov. Brian Kemp looked to curb further spread of the virus. He issued a stay-at-home order, ordered the closure of some businesses and implored Georgians to avoid large funerals.

The outbreak spurred Georgia health officials to ban events of more than 50 people unless attendees practiced social distancing. But less than a month after urging Georgians to follow his advice, Kemp started attending funerals, memorial services and public viewings in ways that were at odds with his administration’s own guidelines, a Georgia Health News investigation found.

December 18, 2020
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  • Max Blau
Despite recent outbreaks that forced temporary closures, the Bruneau-Grandview school board in Idaho voted down a mask mandate in November.

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  • National

A Rural School Under Pressure To Stay Open: 'People Are Just Rough And Tough'

Despite alarming rises in COVID-19 cases and deaths in rural America, some schools are under pressure to stay open for in-person learning while resisting requiring masks and other measures.

December 18, 2020
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  • Kirk Siegler
Dr. Lawanda Jim, Chair of Internal Medicine, receives a COVID-19 vaccine at Northern Navajo Medical Center on Tuesday in Shiprock, N.M.

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  • Health

First Coronavirus Vaccine Doses Administered In Hard Hit Indigenous Communities

Native Americans have been disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus pandemic and are four times as likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19.

December 17, 2020
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  • Reese Oxner
A worker passes through the security gate at the Moderna campus in Norwood, Mass., one of the sites where the biotechnology company is manufacturing its COVID-19 vaccine.

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  • Health

How Will Moderna Meet The Demand For Its COVID-19 Vaccine?

Despite being founded a decade ago, Moderna has never had a product make it to market. And the company registered its first factory with the Food and Drug Administration just this week.

December 17, 2020
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  • Sydney Lupkin
Photo of hospital

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  • Health Care

COVID Hospitalizations Hit New Record In Georgia

Georgia has set a new record for the number of people hospitalized for COVID on a single day.

The total reached 3,221 — surpassing the previous peak of 3,200 set in July — according to state Department of Public Health figures released Wednesday.

December 17, 2020
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  • Andy Miller
Tyson Foods has fired seven managers at its plant in Waterloo, Iowa, who were allegedly involved in a betting pool guessing how many workers there would get COVID-19.

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  • National

Tyson Foods Fires 7 Plant Managers Over Betting Ring On Workers Getting COVID-19

More than 1,000 employees at the pork plant in Iowa have been infected by the virus, and at least six have died. The company launched an independent investigation into the complaints last month.

December 17, 2020
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  • Laurel Wamsley
Dr. Joseph Varon prepares to enter the COVID-19 unit at Houston's United Memorial Medical Center in May. With him are nurses Tanna Ingraham (left) and Jerusha Harshman (right).

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  • Health

At Houston Hospital, Head Of COVID-19 Unit Sees Some Staff Wary Of A Vaccine

Dr. Joseph Varon of Houston's United Memorial Medical Center senses distrust for a vaccine among some hospital staff. "They all think it's meant to harm specific sectors of the population," he says.

December 16, 2020
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  • Steve Inskeep and
  • Heidi Glenn
A "Stay Home" sign is taped to a driver's vehicle as she passes Christmas lights during a car caravan of nurses calling for people to remain home amid a coronavirus surge last month in El Paso, Texas.

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  • National

'What Real Friends Do': How to Navigate Tough Conversations About COVID-19

With a spike in COVID-19 cases colliding with cold weather and the holidays, many Americans are facing difficult decisions about whether and how to socialize.

December 16, 2020
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  • Sarah McCammon
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