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COVID-19 Pandemic Alters How We're Spending The Holiday Weekend

6:56am May 25, 2020

Memorial Day weekend is typically a time for big social gatherings. But with so many holiday destinations observing social distancing, this year may be unlike any public holiday in recent memory.

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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is seen at a demonstration in favor of his government on Sunday.

White House Restricts Travel From Brazil, Where Coronavirus Cases Near 350,000

8:00pm May 24, 2020

by Emma Bowman

President Trump is barring non-U.S. citizens who have been in Brazil in the past two weeks, in an effort to curb infections. Brazil has the world's highest number of cases after the U.S.

On Sunday, visitors strolled the pier at Coney Island beach. New York state parks reopened for the Memorial Day weekend at 50% capacity, and campgrounds were given the green light to reopen Monday.

Cuomo Says New York Is Now 'Decidedly In The Reopening Phase'

5:28pm May 24, 2020

by Hannah Hagemann

Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that campgrounds would be able to open on Monday, Memorial Day. He also gave the OK for the state's professional sports teams to start training camp.

Episcopal Church Bishop On National Memorial Service For COVID-19 Victims

5:19pm May 24, 2020

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Michael B. Curry, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, about "A Time to Mourn," the national virtual memorial service to mourn the lives lost to COVID-19.

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Pediatrician Discusses Pandemic's Effects On Middle Schoolers

5:19pm May 24, 2020

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with pediatrician Cara Natterson about how the coronavirus pandemic — and our response to it — is affecting kids in a key developmental age group: middle school.

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Middle School Counselor's Insights On The Student Pandemic Experience

5:19pm May 24, 2020

A school counselor reflects on how the pandemic is affecting her middle school students.

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ProPublica Report On Chicago's Dramatic COVID-19 Health Disparities

5:19pm May 24, 2020

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with ProPublica's Duaa Eldeib about her report, "The First 100," which looks at the reasons why 70 of the first 100 COVID-19 deaths in Chicago were African Americans.

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Keeping The Florida Keys Closed During The Pandemic

5:19pm May 24, 2020

Much of Florida has loosened its coronavirus restrictions allowing beaches, malls and hair salons to reopen. But one place is still locked in: the Florida Keys.

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A sign displaying beach rules hangs along Venice Beach, where beachgoers returned this weekend following weeks of lockdown due to the coronavirus.

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In Los Angeles, Relief And Caution As Locals Return To Venice Beach

5:19pm May 24, 2020

by Saul Gonzalez

Sun bathing was prohibited and face masks were required. But Venice Beach otherwise felt like its usual eclectic self this Memorial Day weekend.

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John Dibble, 85, has been unable to see his wife of 64 years, Claire, who is in a nursing facility.

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Scenes Of Isolation Amid Pandemic In The Vermont Countryside

10:52am May 24, 2020

by Tara Wray

In the best of times, living in Vermont requires a type of isolation and self-sufficiency unknown in many parts of the country. But the coronavirus has tested the state like never before.