Health & Safety

Nursing Homes Offer Financial Incentives To Encourage Staff To Get COVID-19 Vaccine

4:22pm January 26, 2021

by Allison Aubrey

Only 30% to 60% of nursing home staff have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, a recent survey finds. Some facilities are providing financial incentives to encourage more to get shots.

Stella Kyriakides, European commissioner for health and food safety, said that in the future all companies producing COVID-19 vaccines in the EU "will have to provide early notification whenever they want to export vaccines to third countries."

European Union Warns AstraZeneca Over Reduction In Vaccine Shipments

12:55pm January 26, 2021

"The companies must deliver. They must honor their obligations," the European Commission's president said after both AstraZeneca and Pfizer said they were experiencing shipping issues.

Lights placed as a memorial to COVID-19 victims surround the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Jan. 19. Some economists believe deaths tied to alcohol use, drug use and suicides have risen during the pandemic as the isolation felt by many has taken an e

They Lost Sons To Drug Overdoses: How The Pandemic May Be Fueling Deaths Of Despair

11:43am January 26, 2021

by Scott Horsley

As drug overdose deaths rise during the pandemic, a former White House economist says social isolation could be partly to blame.

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Residents of Protection, Kan., gathered in the high school gym to receive polio shots on April 2, 1957. The mass inoculation event was staged by the March of Dimes, then known as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.

In Tiny Kansas Town, Pandemic Skeptics Abound Amid False Information And Politics

11:24am January 26, 2021

by Jim McLean

In 1957, residents of the southwestern town Protection set an example by being the first in the U.S. to be fully inoculated against polio. Now locals are divided on the safety of COVID-19 vaccines.

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Duke Study: Eviction, Utility Shutoff Moratoriums Slowed COVID-19 Spread

10:15am January 26, 2021

by Neal Charnoff

A new study by Duke University shows that moratoriums on evictions and utility shutoffs helped reduce COVID-19 infection rates.

Suzan Mubarak and her boyfriend, Mitch Domier, live only a few miles apart in Bozeman, Mont., yet the pandemic has limited their ability to see each other in person.

Health & Safety

The Pandemic Made Their Love Long Distance — From Just A Few Miles Apart

9:04am January 26, 2021

by Katheryn Houghton

Everyone is trying to figure out how relationships work in the pandemic. That includes a couple keeping their love alive, ever since their group homes for adults with disabilities went into lockdown.

In California, The Last Of Pandemic Stay-At-Home Orders Are Lifted

8:28am January 26, 2021

California has ended the final three regional stay-at-home orders — citing a decrease in projected new COVID-19 cases. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Dr. Mark Ghaly, the state's health secretary.

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Moderna Is Working On Booster Shot To Protect Against COVID-19 Variant

8:12am January 26, 2021

by Michaeleen Doucleff

Moderna is developing a booster shot for its COVID-19 vaccine to ensure that it works against a variant from South Africa. The variant contains mutations that help the virus evade the immune system.

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Health Workers Still Face Shortages Of Critical Medical Supplies

8:12am January 26, 2021

by Yuki Noguchi

Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, personal protective equipment, or PPE, has been in short supply. Exam gloves currently top the ever-changing list. What's holding up the supply?

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Protesters threw fireworks and rocks at police, damaged storefronts and looted stores during demonstrations on Monday in the Netherlands.

Anti-Curfew Protests Flare Up In The Netherlands

8:07am January 26, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

At least 150 people were reportedly arrested amid violent protests against coronavirus restrictions.