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News Articles: Global Health

Public health officials advise social distancing strategies and masks, in part because the latest evidence suggests that catching the coronavirus, even if you're young, is risky business. A significant portion of COVID-19 survivors suffer fatigue, blood clots, fevers and other symptoms for weeks and months after clearing the infection.

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  • Health

Without A Vaccine, Researchers Say, Herd Immunity May Never Be Achieved

A growing number of researchers think until there's an effective vaccine, the coronavirus will simply persist in the population, causing illness indefinitely. Better to squelch the spread instead.

July 24, 2020
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By:
  • Geoff Brumfiel
With her blood meal visible through her transparent abdomen, the female <em>Aedes aegypti</em> mosquito takes flight as she leaves her host's skin surface.

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  • Science

Why One Dangerous Mosquito Developed A Taste For Human Blood

Given the choice between an animal and a human, the Aedes aegypti species prefers ... us. A new study explains how that happened.

July 23, 2020
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By:
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
A sign reading "Testing Location Ahead" is seen near the COVID-19 testing area on Georgia Tech's campus, Monday, April 6, 2020, in Atlanta.

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  • Health

Georgia Today: The Race To Stop Spread Of COVID-19

This first wave of COVID-19 is not over. On the latest episode of GPB's Georgia Today, Andy Miller of Georgia Health News helps us understand where the pandemic might be headed in the state.

July 23, 2020
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By:
  • Sean Powers and
  • Steve Fennessy
GPB News NPR

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  • Global Health

Studies Suggest Immunity To The Coronavirus Is Likely To Be Short Term

Some studies suggest immunity to the coronavirus doesn't last long. That might have implications for the development of vaccines.

July 22, 2020
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By:
  • Richard Harris
Dr. Glenn Lopez administered a standard test for the coronavirus to Daniel Contreras at a mobile clinic in South Los Angeles last week. Though highly accurate, such tests can take days or more to process.

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  • Health

Rapid, Cheap, Less Accurate Coronavirus Testing Has A Place, Scientists Say

A single test that can give false reassurance sounds bad. But a $10 test for the coronavirus, if repeated daily, would discover real infections, say proponents of such tests as screening tools.

July 22, 2020
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By:
  • Richard Harris
Idris Khattak disappeared in November. He is pictured with daughters Talia Khan and Shumaisa (in the background), on July 29, 2015, in Islamabad.

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  • Asia

The Disappeared Of Pakistan Have New Champions: Young Women

They're speaking out and leading protests to learn the fate of fathers and brothers who are among the many hundreds of disappeared Pakistanis — most of them men. Are they making a difference?

July 21, 2020
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By:
  • Diaa Hadid and
  • Abdul Sattar
French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrive for a joint news conference at the end of the European summit at EU headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday.

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  • Europe

EU Agrees To $858 Billion In Grants, Loans To Bail Out Pandemic-Battered Economies

Exhausted leaders emerged from a marathon five days of talks with a rescue package to help member states weather their worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.

July 21, 2020
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro waves to supporters from the Alvorada Palace in Brasilia on Monday, the same day that two more of his Cabinet ministers were diagnosed with COVID-19.

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  • Latin America

Brazil Tops 80,000 COVID-19 Deaths As 2 Government Ministers Test Positive For Virus

The country's citizenship minister and education minister separately announced their diagnoses on social media the same day that the country announced a grim new milestone in the pandemic.

July 21, 2020
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
GPB News NPR

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  • Global Health

U.K. And China Report Preliminary Success Of Experimental Coronavirus Vaccines

Coronavirus vaccine studies in Great Britain and China have both reported encouraging results. These projects are on the vanguard of vaccine development, but now they are awaiting large-scale tests.

July 20, 2020
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  • Richard Harris
Teenage leaders in the global group Girl Up met for their annual conference via Zoom. NPR interviewed 11 of the attendees. Top row, from left: Salomé Beyer, Rebecca Fairweather, Alliyah Logan and Bethel Kyeza. Middle row, from left: Riya Goel, Nora DiMartino, Aya Alagha and Mofi Onanuga. Bottom row, from left: Vanessa Louis-Jean, Hayat Muse and Rym Badran.

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  • Global Health

8 Things Teen Girl Activists Want You To Know About Their Pandemic Life

Leaders in the global group Girl Up went to their annual conference — virtually — last week. We interviewed some of the attendees to see what's changed during the coronavirus crisis.

July 20, 2020
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By:
  • Nadia Whitehead
Research suggests that kids tend to get infected with the coronavirus less often, and have milder symptoms than adults. There's less consensus on how much kids can spread the illness.

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  • Your Health

Kids Get Coronavirus, But Do They Spread It? We'll Find Out When Schools Reopen

Studies show children have lower rates of COVID-19 and have milder symptoms than adults. But there's less information on how much kids spread the coronavirus, which is key to safely reopen schools.

July 20, 2020
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By:
  • Allison Aubrey
People leave the Ocean 10 restaurant as a curfew from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. is put in place on Saturday in Miami Beach, Fla.

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  • National

'A Wake-Up Call': States Battle New Surge In Coronavirus Cases

Several U.S. states reported record-breaking case counts over the weekend. President Trump insisted again that the virus would "disappear."

July 20, 2020
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
France's President Emmanuel Macron arrives Friday for a European Union meeting in Brussels, where leaders of the 27-member bloc will hold their first face-to-face summit since the pandemic to discuss a COVID-19 economic rescue plan.

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  • Europe

EU Leaders Meet In Hopes Of Closing Divisions Over COVID-19 Relief Package

In their first face-to-face meeting since the pandemic began, European Union leaders hope to hammer out a 1.85 trillion euro ($2.1 trillion) EU budget and COVID-19 recovery plan.

July 17, 2020
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian speaks at a news conference in Sydney earlier this week.

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  • World

Australian State Orders 'No Dancing, No Singing, No Mingling' To Halt COVID-19

New South Wales will restrict "high-risk activities" as neighboring Victoria state reports a record single-day increase of 428 new cases.

July 17, 2020
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
GPB News NPR

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  • World

Intelligence Agencies Warn Russian Hackers Are Targeting Coronavirus Vaccine Research

U.S., British and Canadian intelligence agencies are reporting that Russian hackers are trying to steal information from health care organizations working on a potential coronavirus vaccine.

July 16, 2020
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  • Greg Myre
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