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    Health workers from Tongji Hospital in Wuhan, China, share an emotional embrace with their peers from a hospital in Jilin province at the Tianhe Airport. Colleagues who worked on the front lines together bid farewell as Wuhan lifted its coronavirus lockd
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    International Stories You Loved In 2020

    Dec 31, 2020
    The coronavirus, the rescue of an abused elephant, harassment of Black diplomats and the hunt for Nazi-looted instruments are some of the subjects of the year's most popular NPR international stories.
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    Coronavirus Updates
    A staff member checks a COVID-19 vaccine package in Beijing. China has approved Sinopharm's vaccine after clinical trials showed it has a 79% efficacy against COVID-19.
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    China Approves Its Homegrown COVID-19 Vaccine For Widespread Use

    Dec 31, 2020
    The state-owned Sinopharm says its vaccine has a 79% efficacy rate — surpassing the widely accepted standard of 50% efficacy.
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    Goats and Soda
    Field hockey star Sarita Bhise (right) with her mother (far left) and maternal aunt, cleaning onions they've harvested on the family farm.
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    Why A Field Hockey Champ In India Is Now Harvesting Onions And Herding Goats

    Dec 31, 2020
    Young female athletes benefited from an increase in government support in recent years. The pandemic has put an end to that.
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    Dr. Gagandeep Kang, an infectious diseases researcher at the Christian Medical College in Vellore, India, says India has "dodged a bullet" in the pandemic.
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    Even With 10 Million COVID-19 Cases, A Doctor Says India 'Dodged A Bullet'

    Dec 30, 2020
    Dr. Gagandeep Kang says the pandemic's toll on India has been much less than what she had feared. She reflects on what the country has learned over the past few months.
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    Examining COVID-19 Vaccination Efforts Around The World

    Dec 30, 2020
    While Israel has already vaccinated half a million citizens against the coronavirus, the vaccine timeline for poor countries will be much longer. We look at Israel, Pakistan and the Philippines.
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    Goats and Soda
    A barefoot porter totes a load for an expedition visiting one of the remaining glaciers near the equator, 16,000 feet high on the highest peak in Papua, Indonesia.
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    Our Top Global Stories Of 2020 Not About The Pandemic

    Dec 29, 2020
    Beyoncé's Africa video, Inuit advice on raising kids without yelling and ... locusts! Here's the surprising mix of stories Goats and Soda readers loved in 2020 that have nothing to do with COVID-19.
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    A worker wearing personal protective equipment disinfects the Holy Redeemer Church in Bangkok after a Christmas Eve mass. Thailand is one of many countries now seeing a surge in cases.
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    Why The World Is Seeing Some Of Its Most Extreme Pandemic Lockdowns

    Dec 27, 2020
    Even as the European Union began vaccine rollouts on Sunday, nations around the globe are instituting severe lockdowns and travel restrictions. Fear of the U.K. variant is a key reason.
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    Patrick Phiri of Malawi and fiance Fiona ten Have of Holland kiss in her parents' garden. The couple met in Malawi, where they worked for the same charity, and fell in love. A 3-week visit to the Netherlands turned into 7 months due to pandemic lockdowns
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    COVID Love Story: Can A Malawian Bachelor And A Dutch Bachelorette Make It?

    Dec 27, 2020
    They met and fell in love while working for a nonprofit in his country. He came to visit her in the Netherlands. Because of the pandemic, his hometown visited lasted 7 months. Would love conquer all?
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    The image depicts the coronavirus binding to a human cell. The variant identified in the United Kingdom has a mutation known to increase how tightly the virus binds to human cells.
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    How Worried Should We Be About The New U.K. Coronavirus Variant?

    Dec 24, 2020
    Mathematical modeling suggests that the mutations in this variant make the virus more transmissible. What does that mean for preventive measures — and the new vaccines?
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    Ulisses Xavier, 52, who has worked for 16 years at Nossa Senhora cemetery in Manaus, Brazil, makes wooden crosses to supplement his income. The cemetery has seen a surge in the number of new graves after the outbreak of COVID-19.
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    The Worst Of COVID-19 Should Be Over For 1 Hard-Hit Brazilian City. But It's Not

    Dec 24, 2020
    The jungle metropolis of Manaus had a terrible pandemic spring. A study estimates 76% of residents were exposed to the coronavirus. Researchers thought there couldn't be another surge. And yet...
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    Coronavirus Updates
    A woman undergoes antibody testing before an injection of the Russian COVID-19 vaccine known as Sputnik V at an outpatient clinic in Grozny earlier this week.
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    Putin Promotes Homegrown COVID-19 Vaccine, But Most Russians Are Skeptical

    Dec 24, 2020
    The Russian leader has touted Sputnik V, as the vaccine is known, but more than half of Russians say they don't want to take it.
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    11 Original NPR Comics That Brought Joy, Hope And Help During The Pandemic

    Dec 23, 2020
    In 2020, NPR created and published more than a dozen comics for the pandemic — everything from how to explain it to kids to how to help the older people in your life.
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    The Coronavirus Crisis
    COVID-19 ads that Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl planned to run on Facebook got caught in the social network's ban on political advertising.
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    Mask Up! How Public Health Messages Collide With Facebook's Political Ads Ban

    Dec 23, 2020
    Nearly two months after Election Day, Facebook still prohibits political ads. The ban is frustrating some elected leaders who say it makes it harder to get out information about the pandemic.
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    Goats and Soda
    A nurse checks a child who is receiving treatment for malnutrition at a hospital in Sana'a, Yemen. The photo was taken on December 13.<strong></strong>
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    The Story Of 1-Year-Old Abdullah Is The Story Of Yemen

    Dec 23, 2020
    His parents traveled 15 hours by bus to bring him to a clinic to save his life. He weighed 6 pounds. And he could be one of the fortunate ones.
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    Smoky skies cast a reddish glow to San Francisco skies when the northern California wildfires were burning earlier this year.
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    We All Know Smoke Is Bad For Your Health. It Could Be Worse Than You Think

    Dec 23, 2020
    Could smoke carry disease-causing microorganisms? "It's a very new idea to think of smoke as having a living component," says Leda Kobziar, co-author of an article that explores this theory.
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    The Coronavirus Crisis
    White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx on Tuesday described her experience leading the task force as "overwhelming," suggesting her family have unfairly been targeted in the attacks against her.
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    Deborah Birx, White House Coronavirus Coordinator, To Retire After Biden Transition

    Dec 22, 2020
    "I will be helpful in any role that people think I can be helpful in, and then I will retire," Birx, who has spend more than three decades in public health service, told Newsy on Tuesday.
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    A poster about the new, fast-spreading variant of the coronavirus warns some Britons to stay home. The sign is displayed near King's Cross railway station in London.
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    What We Know About The New U.K. Variant Of Coronavirus — And What We Need To Find Out

    Dec 22, 2020
    There's cause for concern. But how concerned should we be? Here's a rundown of the current thinking on key issues as transmission, severity of disease — and effectiveness of vaccines.
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    The Vatican said Monday that it is "morally acceptable" to use COVID-19 vaccines, even if they used "cell lines from aborted fetuses in their research and production process." Pope Francis, who approved the statement, is seen here in January.
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    Vatican OKs Receiving COVID-19 Vaccines, Even If Research Involved Fetal Tissue

    Dec 21, 2020
    The Vatican said it's permitted to get COVID-19 vaccines due to the "grave danger" of the pandemic, even if scientists used "cell lines from aborted fetuses in their research and production process."
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    Goats and Soda
    A scene from <em>Priya's Mask</em>, a new comic book and animated film that tackles the challenges around the pandemic. It's the latest installment of the Indian superhero series <em>Priya. </em>
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    India's Female Superhero And Her Flying Tiger Are Out To Fight The Pandemic

    Dec 21, 2020
    'Priya's Mask' is the latest in the Indian superhero comic series. This time out, she's trying to get important info to young people — and to stop a superspreading villain.
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    Global Health

    Japan Suspends Subsidized Tourism Program Amid Spike In Coronavirus Cases

    Dec 20, 2020
    During the pandemic, Japan's government has been subsidizing travel and tourism to juice the economy. After a spike in coronavirus cases, it will now suspend the program for two weeks.
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    What Happens After Receiving A COVID-19 Vaccine?

    Dec 20, 2020
    NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Thomas Bollyky of the global health program at the Council on Foreign Relations about the implications of tracking people who get the COVID-19 vaccine.
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    Revisiting With People Who Got Stuck In Months-Long Wuhan Lockdown

    Dec 19, 2020
    Back in March, two people were stuck in Wuhan, China — the pandemic's first epicenter. We check in with them again as they navigate work and family life.
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    Goats and Soda
    A scene from <em>76 Days,</em> a new documentary about frontline health workers and patients during Wuhan's lockdown.
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    A Doc About Wuhan's Lockdown Was 'Too Real' For My Wuhan-Born Dad. I'm Glad I Watched

    Dec 19, 2020
    The reviewer's father, who was born in Wuhan and lived there until he was 28, couldn't bear to keep watching. But she did — and was deeply moved by this new documentary film.
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    Chart: COVID-19 Is Now Leading Killer In 5 Latin American Nations

    Dec 18, 2020
    Why are numbers so high in the region? Public health officials point to a number of underlying problems that let the coronavirus run amok.
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    Daniel Streicker: What If We Could Stop A Virus At Its Animal Source?

    Dec 18, 2020
    MERS, Ebola, and COVID-19—the viruses that cause these diseases likely have the same patient zero: bats. For researcher Daniel Streicker, the key to preventing an outbreak is the bats themselves.
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