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How To Take A Leadership Role During A Crisis

7:40am April 01, 2020

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to retired Army General Stanley McChrystal, who commanded forces in Afghanistan, about remote work leadership during a national crisis. He founded the McChrystal group.

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Why Lupus Patients Find Hydroxychloroquine In Short Supply

6:34am April 01, 2020

by Will Stone

A drug being investigated as a possible COVID-19 treatment is being snapped up, and lupus patients who depend on it to stay healthy are having trouble finding it.

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News Brief: 100,000 People Could Die In Coming Months, Task Force Says

6:31am April 01, 2020

President Trump issues sobering coronavirus warning. Models show it will get worse before it gets better. Dozens of sailors on the USS Theodore Roosevelt are sick after being infected with COVID-19.

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Young People Deliver Supplies To Elderly In New York City

5:04am April 01, 2020

Three 20-somethings have created the volunteer-based group Invisible Hands to deliver groceries and supplies to at-risk older people in New York City.

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Billy Barr lives in Gothic, Colo., a silver mining town that was abandoned more than 100 years ago.

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Tips From Someone With 50 Years Of Social Distancing Experience

5:00am April 01, 2020

by Rae Ellen Bichell

Billy Barr has living alone in a cabin in a Colorado mountain ghost town for 50 years. He offers advice on how to find and maintain happiness in isolation.

View of a Willet bird in the foamy water in front of the setting sun at Fort Myers Beach, Fla., in winter.

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Some Snowbirds Headed North Told To Stay In Their Southern Nests

5:00am April 01, 2020

by Danielle Kaeding

People who migrate South for winter are being told not to return to their year-round homes in the North. Some places that typically welcome their return are asking people to stay away.

The Metropolitan Correctional Center, a federal prison in New York City, seen in Nov. 2019.

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Prisoners Across Country Will Be Confined For 14 Days To Cut Coronavirus Spread

8:28pm March 31, 2020

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

On Tuesday, the Bureau of Prisons announced that for the next two weeks, inmates in every institution across the country will be kept in their assigned cells or quarters.

Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady speaks in January. Arwady says the city is "one of the most prepared" for the crisis but would still not be able to handle the drastic number of predicted hospitalizations.

Chicago Public Health Commissioner: 'We Want To Be Ahead Of This'

7:52pm March 31, 2020

by James Doubek

Experts worry about new hotspots in cities including Chicago. Dr. Allison Arwady says the city is relatively well prepared but would still not be able to handle the predicted wave of hospitalizations.

Traffic on the Hollywood Freeway in Los Angeles in 2018. The Trump administration is weakening auto pollution standards, rolling back a key Obama-era policy that sought to curb climate change.

Trump Administration Weakens Auto Emissions Standards

6:03pm March 31, 2020

by Jennifer Ludden

The Trump administration is replacing Obama-era fuel economy standards with weaker ones that will allow for more air pollution. Groups are already lining up to challenge the new rule.

The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier anchored off Manila Bay west of Manila, Philippines, in a photo from 2018.

Outbreak On U.S. Aircraft Carrier 'Accelerating,' Commander Warns Pentagon

5:08pm March 31, 2020

by David Welna

With more than 100 sailors reportedly infected, the commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier says the shipboard outbreak will keep spreading unless his 4,000+ crew is quarantined.