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News Articles: pandemic

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus addresses the World Health Assembly in Geneva on May 19. After the pandemic treaty was approved, he said, "The world is safer today thanks to the leadership, collaboration and commitment of our Member States to adopt the historic WHO Pandemic Agreement."

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  • Global Health

The world now has its first ever pandemic treaty. Will it make a difference?

At the World Health Assembly, 193 members nations voted to adopt a treat calling for better preventive measures and global cooperation. But there are still details to hash out.

May 20, 2025
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By:
  • Jonathan Lambert
The total human cases from bird flu is still low but if the virus mutates in certain ways, scientists fear pandemic. They're studying how immunity from seasonal flu might protect us.

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  • Health

If bird flu jumps to humans, immunity from seasonal flu may offer some protection

Very few humans have gone up against bird flu. But we've all dealt with seasonal flu for years. Some of our immune systems might be primed to fend off a worse case, research finds.

March 19, 2025
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By:
  • Will Stone
Dr. Kurt Papenfus in 2020. He is the CEO of Keefe Memorial Hospital in Cheyenne Wells, Colo.

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  • Health

5 ways the pandemic changed us for good, for bad and forever

This month marks five years since the pandemic began, and here are 5 things that changed permanently.

March 19, 2025
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By:
  • John Daley
Wastewater sampling plays an increasing role in identifying disease outbreaks. Above: Inspectors in Oakland, Calif., collect samples to send to labs that will try to detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

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  • Global Health

How the pandemic changed the world of disease control for worse -- and for better

Five years after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, there has been progress — and backsliding in the way the world responds to infectious disease.

March 14, 2025
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By:
  • Gabrielle Emanuel
Faced with isolation during the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, James Yu of San Diego, Calif., embraced new priorities — like starting a family. Here, Yu is seen with his wife, Barbara, daughter Madeleine and their dog Quilo.

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  • National

In their own words: How COVID changed America

The COVID-19 lockdown "felt like solitary confinement," a San Diego resident tells NPR. Even after many pandemic rules lifted, American society remains deeply fractured.

March 10, 2025
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
At an April 14, 2020 briefing in the Rose Garden of the White House, President Trump announced his intention to halt U.S. funding for World Health Organization WHO. U.S. membership in the U.N. body is likely to be reviewed in the early days of his second term.

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  • Global Health

How will Trump's return to the White House change the face of global health?

When Donald Trump returns to the White House, he's expected to issue a series of orders with far-reaching impact on global health — from abortion services to support for the World Health Organization.

January 17, 2025
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By:
  • Gabrielle Emanuel,
  • Rachel Carlson,
  • and 1 more
From left: Alexis Jones (Cornell University), Mei Lamison (New York University), Anaka Srinivas (Northwestern University).

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  • Education

A concentrated dose of history: The class of 2024 looks back

Everyone says you live through history, but "I don't think anyone prepared us for this much history," say the students in the Class of 2024.

For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Email us at considerthis@npr.org.

May 22, 2024
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By:
  • GPB Newsroom
A child receives a measles vaccination at a clinic in Harare, Zimbabwe, where a 2022 outbreak saw some 700 children die from the highly infectious childhood disease.

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  • Global Health

The jump in measles cases in 2023 is 'very concerning' says WHO official

And the numbers in 2024 aren't looking any better. Why is this highly infectious disease on the rise? And how can it be tamed?

April 29, 2024
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By:
  • Fran Kritz and
  • Gabrielle Emanuel
Don't just sneeze without a tissue! That's the message of this early pandemic era graffiti in Dakar, Senegal. The World Health Organization has just issued an updated report on the way SARS-CoV-2 spreads. Take our quiz to see if you're up on your COVID terminology.

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  • Global Health

Quiz: Can you pass our 9 question test on the latest theories of COVID-19 transmission

The World Health Organization has issued a report updating terminology and explanations regarding the spread of the novel coronavirus. See if you're up on the latest vocab.

April 29, 2024
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
An EMT wearing personal protective equipment prepares to unload COVID-19 transfer patients in the early days of the pandemic. The Biden Administration has just announced a new program aimed at preventing the next pandemic.

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  • Global Health

The U.S. has come up with its own global strategy to thwart the next pandemic

The Biden administration has launched a new effort to improve the ability of the U.S. to prevent, detect and respond to global health threats. Some experts say the new strategy doesn't go far enough.

April 16, 2024
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By:
  • Gabrielle Emanuel
Oregon schools are struggling to recover academic learning losses, according to a recent study from researchers at Harvard and Stanford.

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  • Education

Why Oregon schools' pandemic recovery lags behind much of the nation

Oregon schools are struggling more than others across the country to recover academic learning losses. Experts say one likely reason is a lack of statewide consistency in tutoring interventions.

April 01, 2024
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By:
  • Katia Riddle
When Australia's black flying foxes are well-fed, they tend to be healthy. A lack of food stresses the bats — and stress causes them to shed, or release, viruses into the environment.

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  • Global Health

How do we halt the next pandemic? Be kind to critters like bats, says a new paper

A team of scientists argue that new vaccines and treatments wouldn't be critical if humans could figure out how to stop viruses from spilling over from animals in the first place.

March 26, 2024
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
Rahima Banu had the last recorded case of naturally occurring variola major smallpox, a deadly strain of the virus, in 1975. At left: Banu in her mother's arms as a small child. At right: Banu today, close to 50 years old, lives in a small village in Bangladesh with her husband, Rafiqul Islam, and their children.

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  • Perspective

The improbable victory over smallpox holds lessons for health threats in 2024

Physician Céline Gounder traveled to India and Bangladesh to bring back unheard stories from the eradication of smallpox, many from health workers whose voices have been missing from the record.

March 18, 2024
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By:
  • Dr. Céline Gounder
Millions of people are affected by long COVID, a disease that encompasses a range of symptoms — everything from brain fog to chronic fatigue — and that manifests differently across patients.

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  • Science

What we know about long COVID — from brain fog to physical fatigue

"Long COVID has affected every part of my life," said Virginia resident Rachel Beale said at a recent Senate hearing. "I wake up every day feeling tired, nauseous and dizzy. I immediately start planning when I can lay down again." Beale is far from alone. Many of her experiences have been echoed by others dealing with long COVID. It's a constellation of debilitating symptoms that range from brain fog and intense physical fatigue to depression and anxiety. But there's new, promising research that sheds light onto some symptoms. NPR health correspondent Will Stone talks with Short Wave host Regina G. Barber about the state of long COVID research — what we know, what we don't and when we can expect treatments or even cures for it. Have more COVID questions you want us to cover? Email us at shortwave@npr.org — we'd love to hear from you.

March 13, 2024
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By:
  • Will Stone,
  • Margaret Cirino,
  • and 3 more
In this Jan. 11, 2008 file photo, a bottle of Eli Lilly & Co.'s Prozac is pictured at a company facility in Plainfield, Ind.

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  • Mental Health

The rate of antidepressants prescribed to young people surged during the pandemic

Researchers analyzed a sample of about 221 million prescriptions from 2016 to 2022, in Americans between the ages of 12 and 25. The increase was prominent among young women and girls.

February 27, 2024
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
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