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    Shots - Health News
    A health worker holds an N95 respirator in the emergency room at OakBend Medical Center in Richmond, Texas, in July. N95s are tested and approved by a federal agency as having demonstrated that they can filter out a minimum of 95% of airborne particles.
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    Why N95 Masks Are Still In Short Supply In The U.S.

    Jan 27, 2021
    Early in the pandemic, shortages of N95 respirators and other medical gear prompted panic across the world. A year later, the masks still aren't widely available to U.S. consumers.
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    National
    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis watches as nurse Christine Philips (left) administers the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19 to Vera Leip, 88, a resident of John Knox Village, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020, in Pompano Beach, Fla.
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    Florida's Vaccine Rollout Rife With Snags And Inequities

    Jan 26, 2021
    Gov. Ron DeSantis is touting the success of his policy providing COVID-19 vaccines to everyone 65 years and older in the state. But critics say the vaccine distribution favors some groups over others.
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    Coronavirus Updates
    South Dakota has given out about 75% of the vaccine doses it's received, a high rate among states.
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    South Dakota Health Leader On How The State Has Gotten Its Vaccine Out

    Jan 25, 2021
    South Dakota has administered roughly 80,000 of the 106,000 doses it has received so far, or 75%. Dr. Shankar Kurra in Rapid City says a centralized system helped for coordination.
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    Coronavirus Updates
    Clinicians care for COVID-19 patients last week in a makeshift intensive care unit at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, Calif. California is lifting regional stay-at-home orders, but county and local authorities can keep other restrictions in place
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    California Lifts Stay-At-Home Orders: 'Light At The End Of The Tunnel'

    Jan 25, 2021
    State health officials are breathing a sigh of relief. But they are also cautious: More than 40 million Californians live in counties where COVID-19 risk is deemed "widespread."
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    Coronavirus Updates
    Pharmaceutical company Merck says it is shelving its two COVID-19 vaccine candidates, saying that the results of clinical trials fell short of its goals.
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    Merck Stops Developing Both Of Its COVID-19 Vaccine Candidates

    Jan 25, 2021
    Merck, which previously made an Ebola vaccine, had been seen as a serious contender in the worldwide race to come up with an answer to the coronavirus.
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    Shots - Health News
    According to a review published in 2018, nearly 75% of the drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration in the 21st century had no data associated with their use during pregnancy.
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    Protect Pregnant Women 'Through Research,' Not 'From Research,' OB-GYNs Urge

    Jan 25, 2021
    As COVID-19 vaccines roll out, doctors say it's long past time to address the exclusion of pregnant women from research on drugs and vaccines. They say better study design is the answer.
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    Shots - Health News
    A sign warns against COVID-19 near the Navajo town of Tuba City, Ariz. As the pandemic rages across the U.S., mitigation measures continue to be critical to save lives.
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    The Vaccine Rollout Will Take Time. Here's What The U.S. Can Do Now To Save Lives

    Jan 23, 2021
    With the virus still raging in the U.S., public health experts say we can't afford to just wait around for the vaccine. They share advice for what communities can do now to slow the death toll.
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    The Coronavirus Crisis

    'The Separate and Unequal Health System' Highlighted By COVID-19

    Jan 21, 2021

    A South Los Angeles hospital has long provided for an underserved community where private insurance is scarce and chronic illnesses can flourish. And then came a devastating coronavirus surge.

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    Book Reviews
    <em>The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine,</em> by Janice P. Nimura
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    As 19th Century Females, Sisters In 'The Doctors Blackwell' Achieve Many Firsts

    Jan 21, 2021
    Historian Janice P. Nimura tells the story of America's first and third certified women doctors and the role these sisters played in building medical institutions.
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    Coronavirus Updates
    U.S. infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci informed the WHO on Thursday that the U.S. will not be leaving the organization. Fauci is seen here last month, receiving the Moderna coronavirus vaccine in Washington.
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    U.S. Will Remain In WHO, Fauci Announces, As Biden Reverses Trump Move

    Jan 21, 2021
    WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus responded, "Thank you my brother Tony" and thanks also to the U.S. for renewing its support.
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    Shots - Health News
    Once the rules for implementing it are worked out, a bill signed into federal law in December will eliminate the required five-month waiting period for diagnosed ALS patients to begin disability benefits, enabling quicker Medicare coverage as well.
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    ALS Patients To Gain Quicker Access To Disability Benefits And Medicare

    Jan 20, 2021
    Lou Gehrig's disease can take months to diagnose, then rapidly incapacitate patients, leaving many families bankrupt before disability payments and Medicare kick in. A recent law aims to change that.
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    Shots - Health News
    Mary Estime-Irvin, a councilwoman in North Miami, Fla., writes the name of a friend lost to COVID-19 on a symbolic tombstone that is part of a pandemic memorial at Griffing Park in North Miami in October.
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    As Death Rate Accelerates, U.S. Records 400,000 Lives Lost To The Coronavirus

    Jan 19, 2021
    Although vaccination has begun, this winter has been the deadliest season of the pandemic. The U.S. death toll jumped from 300,000 to 400,000 in just five weeks.
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    Shots - Health News
    An illustration shows medical student Elizabeth Blackwell at Geneva Medical College (later Hobart College) in upstate New York, as she eyes a note dropped onto her arm by a male student, during a lecture in the college's operating room.
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    'Doctors Blackwell' Tells The Story Of 2 Pioneering Sisters Who Changed Medicine

    Jan 19, 2021
    Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman in America to earn her medical degree. Her sister Emily followed in her footsteps. Janice Nimura tells the story of the "complicated, prickly" trailblazers.
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    Biden Transition Updates
    Dr. Rachel Levine has previously won state Senate confirmation in Pennsylvania, including a unanimous vote in 2015 to endorse her as Pennsylvania's physician general.
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    In Historic 1st, Biden To Nominate Transgender Doctor As Assistant Health Secretary

    Jan 19, 2021
    Dr. Rachel Levine is currently the secretary of health in Pennsylvania, where she leads the state's fight against COVID-19.
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    NIH Director On The State Of The Pandemic In The U.S.

    Jan 18, 2021
    NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins about the ongoing pandemic, delays in the mass vaccination campaign and the impending political transition.
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    Health Care
    Tents of homeless people line a street in Washington, D.C., in April.
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    For Many Areas, Count Of Homeless Population Is Canceled, Or Delayed

    Jan 18, 2021
    The annual street survey of homeless people is being delayed or put off completely in some parts of the U.S. during the pandemic, even as the country's unsheltered population appears to be growing.
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    Shots - Health News
    Sandra's 17-year-old daughter, Lindsey, has autism. Lindsey thrives on routine, and got special help at school until the coronavirus pandemic cut her off from the trained teachers and therapists she'd come to rely on.
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    'I've Tried Everything': Pandemic Worsens Child Mental Health Crisis

    Jan 18, 2021
    When schools closed last spring, children with severe mental illnesses were cut off from the services they'd come to rely on. Many have since spiraled into emergency rooms and even police custody.
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    Shots - Health News
    People lined up to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at a mass vaccination site in Disneyland's parking lot in Anaheim, Calif. on Jan. 13. The state says all residents 65 or older are now eligible to receive the vaccine.
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    OPINION: Moral Tragedy Looms In Early Chaos Of U.S. COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution

    Jan 16, 2021
    As states suddenly expand the categories of people eligible for the first scarce shipments of vaccine, who will be watching to make sure those hit hardest by the pandemic aren't left behind?
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    Shots - Health News
    President-elect Joe Biden has released a $1.9 trillion proposal to help control the pandemic and bring economic relief to Americans.
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    'We're In A War With This Virus': Biden Lays Out COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Plan

    Jan 15, 2021
    President-Elect Joe Biden shares details of how his administration hopes to tackle the country's public health crisis. It's an aggressive plan that he needs Congress to fund.
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    Coronavirus Updates
    Lydia Mobley, an ICU nurse pictured on Dec. 18, 2020, when she received her first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, says her hospital in central Michigan is "seeing more COVID patients, which means more people dying."
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    ICU Nurse Says Careless Attitudes Around COVID-19 Are 'A Slap In The Face'

    Jan 15, 2021
    Lydia Mobley has experienced the pandemic's deadliest days from the inside of a Michigan hospital. "You see people not wearing masks. And then you go to work and you watch people die," the nurse says.
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    Medical Treatments
    The Trump administration's decision to relax rules regarding the prescription of buprenorphine comes as record-level drug overdose deaths occurred in the U.S. in the 12 months ending in June 2020.
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    Trump Administration Will Let More Doctors Prescribe Drug To Fight Opioid Addiction

    Jan 15, 2021
    The change means that doctors will no longer need a special federal waiver in order to prescribe buprenorphine, a medication to treat opioid use disorder.
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    Health Care

    ICU Travel Nurse On Her Work During The Pandemic's Deadliest Days

    Jan 14, 2021
    NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Lydia Mobley, an intensive care unit nurse with Fastaff Travel Nursing, about what it's like to treat COVID-19 patients as the coronavirus continues to surge in the U.S.
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    Shots - Health News
    Nikil Saval, a newly elected Pennsylvania state senator, speaks in support of opening a "supervised injection site" for opioid users in Philadelphia during a Nov. 16 rally outside the federal courthouse.
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    In Philadelphia, Judges Rule Against Opening 'Supervised' Site To Inject Opioids

    Jan 14, 2021
    A federal appeals court ruled the effort by nonprofit Safehouse to open a "supervised injection site" to prevent overdose deaths is laudable but illegal under the so-called federal crack house law.
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    Medical Treatments

    Trump Officials Call For States To Expand COVID-19 Vaccine Eligibility

    Jan 12, 2021
    Trump administration officials on Tuesday announced several changes to the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, including a call for states to open up eligibility to everyone age 65 and older.
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    Shots - Health News
    Staff and residents of the Ararat Nursing Facility in the Mission Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles got COVID-19 shots on Jan. 7. Coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths have been surging throughout Los Angeles County.
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    Why You Should Still Wear A Mask And Avoid Crowds After Getting The COVID-19 Vaccine

    Jan 12, 2021
    It takes time after vaccination for immunity to the virus to build up, and no vaccine is 100% effective. Plus, scientists don't yet know if the vaccine stops viral spread. Here's what's known so far.

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