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Eureka! Two Vaccines Work 鈥 But What About the Also-Rans in the Pharma Arms Race?
How two effective vaccines on the market make it so much harder to quickly test any competing vaccines.
Covid
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Covid ‘Decimated Our Staff鈥 as the Pandemic Ravages Health Workers of Color
Covid-19 has taken an outsize toll on Black and Hispanic Americans 鈥 and those disparities extend to medical workers.
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Children鈥檚 Hospitals Are Partly to Blame as Superbugs Increasingly Attack Kids
A growing body of research shows that overuse and misuse of antibiotics in children鈥檚 hospitals is helping fuel superbugs, which typically strike frail seniors but are increasingly infecting kids. And the pandemic is making things worse.
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Heading Off the Next Pandemic
As long as humans encroach on nature, pandemics are inevitable 鈥 making it important to concentrate resources in areas where people and wildlife are linked.
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鈥楲ast Responders鈥 Brace for Surge in Covid Deaths Across US
In some parts of the country, the surge in covid cases is overwhelming coroners, morgues, funeral homes and religious leaders. It has required ingenuity and even changed the rituals of honoring the dead.
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Video: The Healthy Nurse Who Died at 40 on the Covid Front Lines: ‘She Was the Best Mom I Ever Had’
Yolanda Coar was 40 when she died of COVID-19 in August 2020 in Augusta, Georgia. She was also a nurse manager, and one of nearly 3,000 frontline workers who have died in the U.S. fighting this virus, according to an exclusive investigation by The Guardian and KHN.
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Live Free or Die if You Must, Say Colorado Urbanites 鈥 But Not in My Hospital
In a fracas between a largely rural county and neighboring cities, class and politics are just as relevant as the coronavirus. People are getting 鈥渟tupid and mean,鈥 as one mayor put it.
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In Fast-Moving Pandemic, Health Officials Try to Change Minds at Warp Speed
It typically takes years of persuasion to change habits in the name of health safety. Local officials who are stuck with the responsibility of enforcing statewide pandemic-related mandates are trying to transform behavior fast.
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Analysis: Some Said the Vaccine Rollout Would Be a 鈥楴ightmare.鈥 They Were Right.
There are already signs that the distribution of the COVID vaccines will be messy, confusing and chaotic.
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More Than 2,900 Health Care Workers Died This Year 鈥 And the Government Barely Kept Track
The National Academy of Sciences cites journalists鈥 鈥淟ost on the Frontline鈥 project in a push to expand federal tracking of worker fatalities.
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As the Terror of COVID Struck, Health Care Workers Struggled to Survive. Thousands Lost the Fight.
At least 2,900 health workers have died since the pandemic began. Many were minorities with the highest levels of patient contact.
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COVID Vaccines Appear Safe and Effective, but Key Questions Remain
The federal government expects vaccinations to be available to everyone who wants them by summer 鈥 though glitches are inevitable. If enough of us get vaccinated, we could wave goodbye to the pandemic in 2021.
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At Risk of Extinction, Black-Footed Ferrets Get Experimental COVID Vaccine
Months before federal officials authorized experimental vaccines to ward off the coronavirus in humans, scientists tried a veterinary vaccine in endangered ferrets. Drugmakers are researching similar efforts for other animals proving vulnerable to the virus, such as farmed minks, in part to guard against virus mutations that could pose new risks to people.
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Health Officials Fear Pandemic-Related Suicide Spike Among Native Youth
Recent deaths on a small Native American reservation in Montana have underlined the heightened risks for Indigenous youths and how suicide prevention programs are struggling to operate during the pandemic.
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Inside the First Chaotic Days of the Effort to Vaccinate America
After missteps in Washington, each state and county is left to juggle where to send vaccines first and how to get them to each nursing home, hospital local health department and even school.
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California鈥檚 COVID Enforcement Strategy: Education Over Citations
Gov. Gavin Newsom said in July that California would target businesses that flagrantly violate public health orders. But the state鈥檚 strategy of education over enforcement means that businesses that don鈥檛 comply face few 鈥 if any 鈥 consequences.
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As Biden Gets Sworn In, White House Will Get Scrubbed Down
Fears about lingering coronavirus at the White House are prompting a massive disinfection initiative before the Bidens move in.
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Q&A
鈥楴ine Months Into It, the Adrenaline Is Gone and It鈥檚 Just Exhausting鈥
A UCSF emergency room physician reflects on California鈥檚 response to COVID-19 and on lessons learned 鈥 or not 鈥 as the coronavirus makes its second devastating surge.
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With Few Takers for COVID Vaccine, DC Hospital CEO Takes 鈥極ne for the Team鈥
Howard University Hospital officials are eager to get their 1,900 employees vaccinated, but so far few are showing up.
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Many US Health Experts Underestimated the Coronavirus 鈥 Until It Was Too Late
Scientists learned the wrong lesson from past outbreaks, but Dr. Anthony Fauci doesn鈥檛 cast blame.
By Liz Szabo