Health & Safety

Utah Is One Of The States At The Forefront Of Contact Tracing

6:07am May 18, 2020

by Andrew Becker

Utah has retrained about 150 state employees as contact tracers. We peek over the shoulder of two people working from home, making calls in English and Spanish, and hear about the state's strategy.

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Israelis And Palestinians Are Quarantined Together In Hotel Corona

6:02am May 18, 2020

by Daniel Estrin

Israel quarantines COVID-19 patients in hotels. In one nicknamed Hotel Corona, groups that don't normally mix, were getting along and having fun. NPR's podcast Rough Translation brings us the story.

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Florida's Complete Phase 1 Reopening Happens As COVID-19 Cases Rise

6:01am May 18, 2020

by Greg Allen

In Florida Monday, more places are permitted to reopen. Businesses that opened earlier, will be allowed higher capacity limits. At the same time, there's been been an upswing in COVID-19 cases.

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Morning News: WHO Meeting, U.S. Automakers, Florida's Phase 1

5:53am May 18, 2020

The World Health Organization holds its annual meeting virtually to discuss COVID-19 response. Big U.S. carmakers restart production Monday. And as Florida reopens, coronavirus cases increase.

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Casa de Salud clinicians, staff and health apprentices socially distance outside their New Mexico clinic. The facility is one of many social safety net clinics that haven't yet received pandemic-related funding and are now on the brink financially.

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Medicaid Clinics And Doctors Have Been Last In Line For COVID-19 Relief Funding

5:00am May 18, 2020

by Julie Rovner

Congress authorized $100 billion to reimburse health care providers for losses linked to the pandemic, but much of that money has gone for Medicare patients, with low-income families left behind.

Madison, Wis., Responds To State Supreme Court Striking Down Stay Home Order

1:17am May 18, 2020

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway about the state's supreme ruling against the governor's stay-at-home order and how her city is keeping its people safe.

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Dr. Ray Lorenzoni is in his second year of a pediatric cardiology fellowship at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. In March, he was recruited to treat adult COVID-19 patients during New York City's peak.

'She Wasn't Alone,' A Doctor Reflects On New York City's Coronavirus Peak

5:22pm May 17, 2020

by Meg Anderson

A pediatric cardiologist working at a hospital in the Bronx reflects on treating adults after part of the Children's Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center was converted to an adult COVID-19 unit.

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World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a press conference on January 30, 2020, in Geneva.

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'Unprecedented' World Health Assembly Convenes Online As Pandemic Rages

4:56pm May 17, 2020

by Jason Beaubien

The 73rd annual World Health Assembly, which begins Monday, will be held virtually for the first-time ever. It will also be focused on the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli Denied Release From Prison To Research Coronavirus Cure

4:19pm May 17, 2020

by Jason Slotkin

Shkreli argued that his pharmaceuticals experience qualified him to help seek a treatment or cure. Probation officials called that claim "delusional self-aggrandizing behavior."

Patients entering the Pikine Hospital in Dakar on April 23.

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Senegal Pledges A Bed For Every Coronavirus Patient — And Their Contacts, Too

11:20am May 17, 2020

by Ricci Shryock

Despite a less than robust health system, the African nation has been praised for its efforts to halt the spread of COVID-19.