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California Urges Day Care Centers To Stay Open During Pandemic

7:33am April 21, 2020

by Mariana Dale

Some states are urging child care centers to stay open to keep essential workers on the job. But providers say they're not trained to keep everyone safe and there's no social distancing with toddlers.

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A hospital patient in Stamford, Conn., who has COVID-19 symptoms gets his temperature checked. Severe infections with the novel coronavirus have been unusually high among African Americans and Latinos in many hospitals.

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Opinion: U.S. Must Avoid Building Racial Bias Into COVID-19 Emergency Guidance

7:00am April 21, 2020

States are releasing "Crisis Standards of Care" guidelines, aimed at helping desperate hospitals discern how to allocate scarce resources. But the guidance doesn't factor in health care inequalities.

NPR Analysis Of COVID-19 Deaths At New York Nursing Homes

6:34am April 21, 2020

by Joseph Shapiro

There's one thing that distinguishes the nursing homes that have reported the highest number of deaths: It's not the quality of the nursing home, but the percentage of people of color who live there.

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Massachusetts Expands Contact Tracing For People With COVID-19

6:34am April 21, 2020

NPR's David Greene talks to Dr. Joia Mukherjee, chief medical officer at Partners In Health, about Massachusetts embarking on a mass contact-tracing project, and how the program works.

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News Brief: Trump Immigration Tweet, COVID-19 Testing, Oil Prices

6:27am April 21, 2020

The president tweets he'll suspend all immigration into the U.S. because of COVID-19. Testing remains a stumbling block to lifting lockdowns. And for the first time ever, oil prices went negative.

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Coronavirus Will Likely Change The Nature Of U.S. Political Debate

6:23am April 21, 2020

by Mara Liasson

With Congress taking unprecedented measures to respond to the coronavirus pandemic and a deep economic shock to the country, the crisis is poised to deeply reshape political dynamics in the U.S.

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Why Hospitals Still Don't Have Enough Supplies To Test For COVID-19

5:02am April 21, 2020

NPR's David Greene talks to Dr. Bruce Meyer, president of Jefferson Health in Philadelphia, about hospitals competing with each other to get coronavirus test supplies.

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Global Health Expert Answers More Common Coronavirus Questions

10:52pm April 20, 2020

by Pien Huang

Global health expert Dr. Abraar Karan and NPR's Pien Huang answer the most common listener questions on the spread of the coronavirus, its symptoms, testing and treatment.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (center) tours a temporary hospital in Atlanta last week. On Monday, he announced the first steps to reopen the state's economy, beginning on Friday.

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Georgia Beginning To Reopen Its Economy, Lifting Some Coronavirus-Crisis Limits

10:31pm April 20, 2020

by Hannah Hagemann

Gov. Brian Kemp cited favorable data and more testing in his decision to reopen businesses such as gyms, tattoo parlors and hair salons this Friday. Pennsylvania and Tennessee also announced changes.

This 2020 electron microscope image made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the spherical particles of the new coronavirus, colorized blue. New York is planning a major effort to test the population for antibodies for t

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New York Starts 'Aggressive' Coronavirus Antibody Testing In Quest To Reopen Economy

8:04pm April 20, 2020

by Vanessa Romo

"Any plan to start to reopen the economy has to be based on data and testing, and we have to make sure our antibody and diagnostic testing is up to the scale we need," Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.