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How San Francisco's D.A. Is Decreasing The Jail Population Amid COVID-19

2:40pm April 09, 2020

by Terry Gross

Chesa Boudin's radical leftist parents were imprisoned when he was a toddler. Now he's working to reduce the inmate population in San Francisco — and worrying about his dad, who remains in prison.

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Health care workers feel unprotected from the disease they're supposed to treat.

'It's Like Walking Into Chernobyl,' One Doctor Says Of Her Emergency Room

2:24pm April 09, 2020

Some health care workers say they're exhausted and burning out from the stress of treating a stream of critically ill patients in an increasingly overstretched health care system.

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An ill woman enters Elmhurst Hospital Center in the Queens borough of New York City this week. Locked away from families, hospitalized patients these days feel particularly isolated emotionally as well as physically, psychiatrists say. Teletherapy can hel

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Psychiatrists Lean Hard On Teletherapy To Reach Isolated Patients In Emotional Pain

1:35pm April 09, 2020

by Yuki Noguchi

Remote mental health treatment isn't the same as in-person visits with a psychiatrist, but faced with a pandemic, many people have been forced to make do. Regulators are making that access easier.

"I think the American public have done a really terrific job of just buckling down and doing those physical separation and adhering to those guidelines," National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci said Thursday.

Fauci Says U.S. Coronavirus Deaths May Be 'More Like 60,000'; Antibody Tests On Way

12:43pm April 09, 2020

by Bill Chappell

The predicted death toll has fallen, Dr. Anthony Fauci says, because of Americans' embrace of physical separation and other restrictions.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday released a list of additional items they believe need to be included in the next emergency relief package to respond to the coronavirus.

Fate Of 'Interim Emergency' Relief Bill Uncertain As Parties Debate Size, Timing

8:22pm April 08, 2020

by Deirdre Walsh

Senate Majority Leader McConnell wants another $250 billion for small businesses. Top Democrats are asking for $250 billion more for state and local governments, but the White House is pushing back.

A Roma family rides a horse-drawn cart carrying scrap metal out of Romania's Pata-Rât city dump.

'Where Is This Going To Lead?': Roma People In Europe Face Coronavirus Disaster

11:57am April 08, 2020

by Joanna Kakissis

Many in Europe's largest ethnic minority group live in poor, marginalized communities where conditions could lead to a swift outbreak, say researchers and activists.

French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle cruises at the coast of Frederikshavn in Denmark on March 29. The carrier is returning to home port after suspected cases of COVID-19 were found aboard.

French Aircraft Carrier Returns To Port After Suspected COVID-19 Cases Found Aboard

11:44am April 08, 2020

by Scott Neuman

France's armed services ministry said in a statment that about 40 sailors aboard the nuclear-powered Charles de Gaulle were under "close medical observation" after showing symptoms.

Health care workers assist a COVID-19 patient in Spain. Some evidence from Europe and China suggests an overzealous immune response may be contributing to the severe illness in some patients.

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Why Some COVID-19 Patients Crash: The Body's Immune System Might Be To Blame

10:12pm April 07, 2020

by Geoff Brumfiel

An overblown immune response could be killing a portion of the sick, and some doctors think that new treatments being tested could help at least some of those patients.

Patients are brought into Wyckoff Heights Medical Center by staff wearing personal protective gear due to COVID-19 concerns on Tuesday in the Brooklyn borough of New York.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Reports 'Largest Single-Day' Increase In Deaths

9:37pm April 07, 2020

by Vanessa Romo

Cuomo says 731 people died on Monday. "Behind every one of those numbers is an individual, is a family, is a mother, is a father, is a brother, is a sister. So a lot of pain again today," he adds.

Navy Rear Adm. John Polowczyk, supply chain task force lead at FEMA, speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House on Sunday.

States, Hospitals Say They're Still Not Getting Vital Supplies To Fight COVID-19

7:33pm April 07, 2020

by Eric Westervelt

President Trump says the government's procurement and distribution system is "a fine-tuned machine," but many hospitals and state governors say they're struggling to get what they need.

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