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News Articles: On Disabilities

Peter Prater survived a case of COVID-19 after an outbreak hit his home, the Tallahassee Developmental Center in April. No federal agency tracks how many of the estimated 300,000 people who live in such facilities nationwide have caught COVID-19 or died as a result.

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  • Health

People With Intellectual Disabilities Are Often Overlooked In Pandemic Response

Without federal tracking, no one knows how many people in disability group housing have fallen ill or died from the virus. And few states are prioritizing them for vaccination.

February 12, 2021
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  • Katheryn Houghton
Workers and patients at a pop-up COVID-19 vaccination site near downtown Seattle in January. "The vast majority who are coming in do appear to be meeting the eligibility criteria," says Dr. Jeff Duchin, King County's public health officer.

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  • Health

How People Are Jumping The COVID-19 Vaccine Line

Guidance from the CDC on who should be prioritized to get the COVID-19 vaccine was meant to be flexible and inclusive. But "the attempt to have equity created more inequity," says one researcher.

February 10, 2021
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  • Eilis O'Neill
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  • On Disabilities

Man With Cerebral Palsy On Inspiring Nike's New Hands-Free Shoe

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Matthew Walzer, who at age 16 wrote a letter to Nike back in 2012 that helped inspire the brand's new accessible shoe line.

February 07, 2021
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  • GPB Newsroom

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  • Health

Is It Ever OK To Jump Ahead In The Vaccine Line?

With vaccine still scarce, and eligibility differing from place to place, some people have easier access to "extra" doses than others. Careful, ethicists warn. Going out of turn is a slippery slope.

February 06, 2021
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  • Pien Huang

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  • Health

A Writer Lost His Singing Voice, Then Discovered The 'Gymnastics' Of Speech

New Yorker writer John Colapinto developed a vocal polyp when he began "wailing" with a rock group without proper warmup. His new book explores the human voice's physicality, frailty and feats.

January 29, 2021
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  • Dave Davies
A skier ascending in Jackson, Wyo., in February. The Veterans COMPACT Act of 2020 requires the Department of Veteran Affairs to investigate outdoor recreation as a recognized form of therapy.

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  • Health

New VA Program Investigates Outdoor Therapy For Veterans

The Department of Veterans Affairs will create a task force charged with researching the benefits of outdoor recreation in an effort to help reduce veteran suicides.

January 27, 2021
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  • Dustin Jones
Suzan Mubarak and her boyfriend, Mitch Domier, live only a few miles apart in Bozeman, Mont., yet the pandemic has limited their ability to see each other in person.

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  • Health

The Pandemic Made Their Love Long Distance — From Just A Few Miles Apart

Everyone is trying to figure out how relationships work in the pandemic. That includes a couple keeping their love alive, ever since their group homes for adults with disabilities went into lockdown.

January 26, 2021
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  • Katheryn Houghton
Once the rules for implementing it are worked out, a bill signed into federal law in December will eliminate the required five-month waiting period for diagnosed ALS patients to begin disability benefits, enabling quicker Medicare coverage as well.

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  • Health

ALS Patients To Gain Quicker Access To Disability Benefits And Medicare

Lou Gehrig's disease can take months to diagnose, then rapidly incapacitate patients, leaving many families bankrupt before disability payments and Medicare kick in. A recent law aims to change that.

January 20, 2021
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  • Michelle Andrews
"People will not be subject to age or disability discrimination when the going gets tough," Roger Severino, the director of the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services, told NPR.

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  • Investigations

HHS Civil Rights Office Tackles Health Care Discrimination Of People With Disabilities

New actions from the Office For Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services aim to fight discrimination against people with disabilities who have COVID-19, like being denied treatment.

January 15, 2021
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  • Joseph Shapiro
Seema Verma, chief administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, says the changes in the way Medicaid is funded and regulated in Tennessee "could be a national model moving forward."

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  • Health

Trump Officials Approve Tennessee's Controversial Request To Revamp Medicaid Funding

The plan, long endorsed by conservatives, would give the state broad flexibility in running its health insurance program for the poor, while capping annual federal funding for the program.

January 09, 2021
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  • Phil Galewitz
In late 2019, the patient's choice to move to an assisted living facility seemed like a good idea — a chance for more social interaction and help with meals and medical care.

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  • Health

Choices, Chance And Living While You Can: Bookends To The Year Of COVID-19

One of my patients in this devastating year stands out — a veteran who'd survived PTSD, cancer and family estrangement. Assisted living raised his COVID-19 risk, but also brought him community.

December 31, 2020
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  • John Henning Schumann
Masks hang from an IV pole at a hospital.

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  • Investigations

Oregon Hospitals Didn't Have Shortages. So Why Were Disabled People Denied Care?

The fight to save the life of one woman reveals a grim pattern: In Oregon, people with disabilities were denied health care during the pandemic, even without a shortage of ventilators or other care.

December 21, 2020
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  • Joseph Shapiro
Victoria Gray (second from left) with children Jamarius Wash, Jadasia Wash and Jaden Wash. Now that the gene-editing treatment has eased Gray's pain, she has been able be more active in her kids' lives and looks forward to the future. "This is really a life-changer for me," she says.

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  • Health

1st Patients To Get CRISPR Gene-Editing Treatment Continue To Thrive

As the first patient to receive an experimental treatment that relied on the gene-editing technique CRISPR continues to do well 17 months later, more patients seem to be benefiting, too.

December 15, 2020
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  • Rob Stein
Kimberly Conger, Sarah McSweeney's nurse at her group home, shows a photo of McSweeney on her phone. She says McSweeney was outgoing and fun: "She absolutely adored going into malls and getting her makeup done and getting her hair done."

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  • Investigations

As Hospitals Fear Being Overwhelmed By COVID-19, Do The Disabled Get The Same Access?

In an Oregon hospital, a disabled woman fought for her life as her friends and advocates pleaded for proper care. Her case raises the question: Are disabled lives equally valued during a pandemic?

December 14, 2020
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  • Joseph Shapiro
White flags planted by volunteers visualize lives lost in the U.S. to COVID-19 as part of an installation by artist Suzanne Firstenberg in Washington, D.C. The death toll has now reached 300,000.

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  • Health

How Do We Grieve 300,000 Lives Lost?

Eleven months into the COVID-19 crisis, an unimaginable death toll has been reached. NPR spoke to doctors, nurses and the bereaved about how they face loss every day.

December 14, 2020
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  • Will Stone
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