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    A drop-off at a day care last month in the Queens borough of New York City.
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    Day Care, Grandparent, Pod Or Nanny? How To Manage The Risks Of Pandemic Child Care

    Aug 21, 2020
    At least two-thirds of U.S. families are struggling to find safe and affordable child care as the pandemic rages on. NPR asked infectious disease experts to help sort the health risks of each option.
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    Dr. Deborah Birx speaks to reporters this week outside the Arkansas Governor's Mansion in Little Rock. Birx indicated that data on U.S. COVID-19 hospitalizations will move back to the CDC under a "revolutionary new data system" the agency is developing.
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    Birx Stokes Hopes That Key Hospital Data Tracking Will Soon Return To CDC

    Aug 20, 2020
    Dr. Deborah Birx says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is creating a new way to track COVID-19 hospitalizations a month after such data collection was moved outside the agency.
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    Actors Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver in a scene from <em>Marriage Story. </em>The award-winning 2019 film can be watched with audio description that conveys scenes to viewers who are visually impaired. But <em>Parasite, </em>another popular award-wi
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    There's A Better Way To 'Dub' Movie Audio For Visually Impaired Fans

    Aug 19, 2020
    Most non-English films made outside the U.S. are inaccessible to many of the 26.9 million visually impaired Americans. "Dubbing just tells us the dialogue," one disability rights activist explains.
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    Media
    Some Netflix users will be able to watch shows at slower and faster speeds. It's a helpful move for blind and deaf users, advocates say.
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    Netflix Is Letting Some People Speed Up Playback. That's A Big Deal For Blind Fans

    Aug 12, 2020
    People who are blind spend a lot of time listening to words. So much that they often prefer to listen at faster speeds, including for TV shows.
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    Investigations
    Melissa Hickson says no one asked her husband, Michael, shown here with stepdaughter Mia, if he wanted to keep getting treatment. "He would say: 'I want to live. I love my family and my children ... that's the reason for the three years I have fought to
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    One Man's COVID-19 Death Raises The Worst Fears Of Many People With Disabilities

    Jul 31, 2020
    The hospital said it made a humane decision to end treatment. Michael Hickson's widow says doctors ended his care because they underestimated the life of a man with significant disabilities.
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    Voters in Kirkwood, Mo., cast ballots on Nov. 6, 2018 that helped decide the balance of power in Congress. Next week they'll get the chance to decide whether to expand Medicaid in their state. The measure could extend health coverage to more than 230,000
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    Will Missouri Be The Next Red State To Expand Medicaid? Voters To Decide

    Jul 30, 2020
    Advocates for expansion say it would create jobs, protect hospitals from budget cuts, bring billions of federal taxpayer dollars back to the state, and bring health coverage to 230,000 more people.
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    Blood plasma — the yellowish, cell-free portion that remains after red and white blood cells have been filtered out by a machine and returned to the plasma donor — is rich with antibodies. Plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients might prove useful in
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    Harvested Antibodies Now Being Tested As A Prevention Tool Against COVID-19

    Jul 29, 2020
    Scientists are now checking to see if purified blood serum from people who have recovered from COVID-19 might be more than a useful treatment. Perhaps it's a way to prevent disease in someone else.
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    Michael Conley, who is deaf, models a mask that has a transparent panel in San Diego on June 3. Face coverings can make communication harder for people who rely on reading lips, and that has spurred a slew of startups and volunteers to make masks with pl
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    Demand Surges For See-Through Face Masks As Pandemic Swells

    Jul 28, 2020
    Face coverings are key to stopping spread of the coronavirus, but also slow communication, especially for people who don't hear well. Volunteers and companies suggest some transparent alternatives.
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    Conner Curran, 9, (right) and his brother Will, 7, at their home in Ridgefield, Conn., this week. The gene therapy treatment that stopped the muscle wasting of Conner's muscular dystrophy two years ago took more than 30 years of research to develop.
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    A Boy With Muscular Dystrophy Was Headed For A Wheelchair. Then Gene Therapy Arrived

    Jul 27, 2020
    Gene therapy has helped a 9-year-old boy regain enough muscle strength to run. If successful in others, the treatment could change the lives of thousands of children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
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    In Reopening, The Smithsonian Looks To Balance Safety And Disability Access

    Jul 26, 2020
    NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Beth Ziebarth, director of Access Smithsonian, about how the museums are adjusting their approach to accessibility as museums begin to reopen amid the pandemic.
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    The Coronavirus Crisis
    An evacuee lies on a cot at an evacuation shelter for people with disabilities in Stuart, Fla., in preparation for Hurricane Dorian on Sept. 1, 2019. Now, with the pandemic raging, officials across the South are trying to adjust their evacuation and shel
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    Disaster Relief For The Elderly And Disabled Is Already Hard. Now Add A Pandemic

    Jul 22, 2020
    Natural disasters are already deadly for the elderly and people with disabilities. During the pandemic, advocates say disaster preparation has fallen short in meeting the needs of the most at risk.
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    North Carolina Couple Sews Transparent Masks To Help People With Hearing Loss

    Jul 20, 2020
    Face masks may be a public health essential, but they come with some social downsides. They can be especially challenging for people with hearing loss, and one couple has come up with a solution.
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    Shots - Health News
    Amber England, who led the successful campaign for a ballot initiative to give 200,000 more Oklahomans health coverage, talked with supporters online this week. Voters narrowly approved the Medicaid expansion measure Tuesday, despite opposition by the st
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    Oklahoma Votes For Medicaid Expansion Over Objections Of Republican State Leaders

    Jul 01, 2020
    A narrow majority approved the ballot measure, making Oklahoma the 37th state to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. An estimated 200,000 uninsured adults will now qualify for coverage.
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    Shots - Health News
    Matt Ford is seen in Verona, Wis., with one of his caregivers, Grace Brunette. An accident in 1987 left Ford paralyzed in all four limbs. He needs help getting in and out of bed, preparing meals, using the bathroom and driving. Brunette recently finished
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    People With Disabilities Find The Coronavirus Has Cut Them Off From Their Caregivers

    Jun 16, 2020
    Wisconsin was already facing a shortage of caregivers who provide crucial health services and help their clients live and work independently. The pandemic has eroded this workforce even more.
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    Kelly Womochil, an aide at Enterprise Estates Nursing Center in Enterprise, Kan., tries on a poncho that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is sending to nursing homes to protect against the coronavirus.
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    Nursing Homes Run Short Of COVID-19 Protective Gear As Federal Response Falters

    Jun 11, 2020
    At least 711 nursing homes reported running out of N95 masks at the end of May, and 1,963 said they had less than a week's worth. "The federal government has got to step up," says one advocate.
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    The Coronavirus Crisis
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    COVID-19 Infections And Deaths Are Higher Among Those With Intellectual Disabilities

    Jun 09, 2020
    There's growing evidence of high rates of death from COVID-19 for a population that doesn't get a lot of attention: People with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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    President Trump announced in May that he was taking hydroxychloroquine as a preventive measure against COVID-19. But a study published Wednesday finds no evidence the drug is protective in this way.
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    No Evidence Hydroxychloroquine Is Helpful In Preventing COVID-19, Study Finds

    Jun 03, 2020
    A study of more than 800 health workers, first responders and others finds that taking hydroxychloroquine to prevent COVID-19 is no better than a placebo in preventing the illness.
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    Coronavirus Live Updates
    Feda Almaliti with her son, 15-year-old Muhammed, who has severe autism. "Muhammed is an energetic, loving boy who doesn't understand what's going on right now," she says.
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    'He's Incredibly Confused': Parenting A Child With Autism During The Pandemic

    May 22, 2020
    Feda Almaliti is the mother of a 15-year-old son with severe autism and an advocate. She describes how the challenges of the coronavirus crisis are exponentially more difficult for families like hers.
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    On Disabilities

    People With Disabilities Face Additional Challenges During The Pandemic

    May 19, 2020
    NPR's investigations correspondent and Jennifer Mizrahi, president of RespectAbility, answer listener questions about people with disabilities navigating the new reality during the pandemic.
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    Traffic Is Way Down Because Of Lockdown, But Air Pollution? Not So Much

    May 19, 2020
    Car traffic took a big dip beginning in late March, and headlines celebrated clean air around the U.S. But an NPR analysis of EPA data tells a more troubling story.
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    Health

    People With Disabilities Fear Discrimination In Coronavirus Response

    May 03, 2020
    NPR's Michel Martin speaks with attorney and disability rights advocate Haben Girma about the fears disabled people have of being last in line for life-saving care during the coronavirus pandemic.
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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

    Apr 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.
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    All 84 residents of Magnolia Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Riverside, Calif., were evacuated from the facility in early April after 39 residents tested positive for the coronavirus.
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    Discharging COVID-19 Patients To Nursing Homes Called A 'Recipe For Disaster'

    Apr 20, 2020
    New York and New Jersey want nursing homes to accept recovering hospital patients, regardless of their COVID-19 status, to free up space in hospitals. What's to keep the virus from spreading?
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    Shots - Health News
    In 1989, Fauci and then-U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Louis W. Sullivan (right) announced results of studies showing that the antiviral drug AZT had delayed the onset of disease in some people with HIV.
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    Long Before COVID-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci 'Changed Medicine In America Forever'

    Apr 16, 2020
    New Yorker writer Michael Specter covered Fauci's early work in the AIDS epidemic. "He's always taken an open-minded approach to the problems," Specter says of the infectious-disease expert.
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    If one person in the household is sick with COVID-19, everyone else in the home should consider themselves as possibly having an asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic infection, even if they feel fine, doctors say.
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    How To Stay Healthy When Your Child, Spouse Or Roommate Has COVID-19

    Apr 16, 2020
    Sharing a home with someone who has COVID-19 raises your risk of catching the virus. But the sick person needs your support, as well as good hygiene skills. Try these "best practice" tips.

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