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News Articles: COVID

Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center is one of the largest safety-net hospitals in the United States.

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  • Investigations

Hospitals Serving The Poor Struggled During COVID. Wealthy Hospitals Made Millions

The financial gap between wealthy hospitals and safety-net hospitals, which take everyone who walks through their doors, has widened during the pandemic, an NPR and PBS Frontline investigation found.

May 20, 2021
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By:
  • Laura Sullivan and
  • Huo Jingnan
Darren Ford (left) reacts to the new mask guideline while presenting his vaccine card at Liberty Theatre on May 14 in Camas, Wash. Gov. Jay Inslee announced last Thursday that the statewide mask mandate would no longer apply to fully vaccinated adults.

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  • National

Even With The No-Mask Guidance, Some Pockets Of The U.S. Aren't Ready To Let Go

Many Americans are still making sense of new CDC guidance that vaccinated people no longer have to wear masks in most indoor settings.

May 19, 2021
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By:
  • Will Stone
Priyali Sur, 29 weeks pregnant, at home in Delhi on April 30.

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  • Global Health

She Was Pregnant. She Was Sick. And In India, She Had Nowhere To Go

A pregnant journalist investigates and finds many pregnant, COVID-positive women can't access life-saving healthcare during the country's deadly second wave.

May 18, 2021
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By:
  • Priyali Sur
v\Nearly 41,000 attended the first full-capacity Atlanta United game on Saturday – a record number since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  • Sports

More Than 40K Attend Atlanta United Game In Record COVID-19 Attendance

More than 40,000 attended the first full-capacity Atlanta United game on Saturday — a record number since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

May 18, 2021
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By:
  • Sarah Rose
Gayle Smith told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on May 12: "There is no question but that we need a grand plan and the United States needs to be at the forefront of that," she said.

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  • Politics

Biden Wants To Share COVID Vaccines Globally. Here's The 'Activist' Helping Him

When the 2014 Ebola outbreak was spiraling out of control, Gayle Smith worked on the team that devised the Obama administration's response.

May 18, 2021
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By:
  • Tamara Keith
Gayle Smith told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on May 12: "There is no question but that we need a grand plan and the United States needs to be at the forefront of that," she said.

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  • Politics

Biden Wants To Share COVID Vaccines Globally. Here's The 'Activist' Helping Him

When the 2014 Ebola outbreak was spiraling out of control, Gayle Smith worked on the team that devised the Obama administration's response.

May 18, 2021
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By:
  • Tamara Keith
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  • Children's Health

Sign Up By Tuesday For 12 And Up Baldwin County COVID-19 Vaccination Event

The Baldwin County School district is holding a vaccination event for children 12 and up on Friday, May 21.

May 17, 2021
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Miami Beach had a vaccination event on the sand for people to walk up and get a Johnson & Johnson shot on May 2.

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  • National

Miami Tries To Make Vaccinations Easy: 'Wherever People Are That's Where We Will Be'

In Miami, as vaccinations slow, officials are coming up with new ways to make them easier to get, particularly for immigrants and busy working people.

May 17, 2021
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By:
  • Verónica Zaragovia

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Let Us Now Praise Masks

With new CDC guidelines saying those vaccinated against COVID-19 can ditch face masks except for certain situations, NPR's Scott Simon ponders how masks have become a symbol for this age.

May 15, 2021
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By:
  • Scott Simon
Covid Inc. in Tempe, Ariz., has been selling audiovisual equipment for decades. CEO Norm Carson says people sometimes come in to the building looking for a COVID-19 test.

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  • Business

When Your Company Is Named Covid, You've Heard All The Jokes

Covid Inc. in Tempe, Ariz., has been selling audiovisual equipment for decades, but in the past year, some visitors stop by for an altogether different reason: They're looking for a COVID-19 test.

May 15, 2021
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By:
  • Scott Simon and
  • Avie Schneider
Left: A drawing of a human with a cow head holding a needle menacingly toward a child as he administers a tainted smallpox vaccination was meant to sow distrust of smallpox vaccines. Right: Protesters against COVID-19 vaccinations hold a rally in Sydney in February.

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  • Global Health

PHOTOS: Vaccine History Repeats Itself — Sometimes

From the first vaccine (for smallpox) the questions have been the same. How do we transport it? Who's next to get it? Why so much hesitancy? The answers can be similar — or dramatically different.

May 14, 2021
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By:
  • Michele Abercrombie,
  • Xueying Chang,
  • and 2 more
A light micrograph of a mature sporangium of a mucor fungus. India is seeing a rise in cases of mucormycosis, a rare but dangerous fungal infection.

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  • Global Health

What Is 'Black Fungus'? And Why Is It Spreading Among India's COVID Patients?

Doctors say India's battle with COVID-19 has led to an unprecedented rise in mucormycosis, a rare but dangerous fungal infection that preys on people with weakened immune systems.

May 13, 2021
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By:
  • Kamala Thiagarajan
A recent COVID-19 vaccination event at Mercer University in Macon.

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  • Health

With Kids OKed For COVID-19 Vaccines, New Access Gaps Emerge

Children between 12 and 15 years old are now allowed to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in Georgia, and around the country — which sets up a challenge in bridging gaps in vaccine access between the moneyed north of Georgia and the rest of the state.  

May 12, 2021
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Sydney Porter of Bellevue, Wash., receives her COVID-19 vaccination from Kristine Gill, with the Seattle Fire Department's Mobile Vaccination Teams, before the game between the Seattle Mariners and the Baltimore Orioles at T-Mobile Park on May 5 in Seattle. A late spring COVID-19 surge has filled hospitals in the metro areas around Seattle.

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  • National

4th Wave Of COVID-19 Hospitalizations Hits Washington State

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is extending mandates and restrictions while much of the U.S. celebrates declining COVID-19 case numbers and hospitalizations.

May 11, 2021
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By:
  • Will Stone
A medical professional from UofL Health administers a vaccine to a patient in their vehicle at University of Louisville Cardinal Stadium.

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  • Science

To Bridge The Digital Divide, Biden Administration Launches Vaccine Hotline

It's part of the administration's push to get 70% of adults in the U.S. vaccinated with at least one dose by July 4.

May 09, 2021
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By:
  • Allison Aubrey
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