Nurith Aizenman
Stories
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Health
300,000 Deaths By December? 9 Takeaways Of The Newest COVID-19 Projections
What's driving this death toll? Could anything improve the outlook? How reliable are these predictions anyway? We get into the weeds.
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Global Health
U.S. Missionary With No Medical Training Settles Suit Over Child Deaths At Her Center
Renee Bach ran a treatment center for severely malnourished children in Uganda. Over five years, 105 died. This week, a lawsuit by two mothers who each lost a son was settled with a cash payment.
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National
Can Masks Save Us From More Lockdowns? Here's What The Science Says
How can communities stop coronavirus case surges without crushing the economy? Some scientists say widespread mask wearing may be more than a helpful precaution — it may be the solution.
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Health
Scientists Study How Much A Difference Wearing A Mask Makes
How much could coronavirus infections be curbed through mandatory masking, better testing and tracing, and other measures short of a return to full lockdown? Here's what mathematical models tell us.
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World
Doctors Without Borders Employees Sign Letter Calling For End To Institutional Racism
More than 1,000 current and former staffers of Doctors Without Borders have signed a letter calling on the vaunted aid group to root out pervasive institutional racism within the organization.
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Health
Drill Down To County Level And The U.S. COVID-19 Outbreak Looks Even Worse
Local data reveal a deeper picture of where the current hot spots are in the United States — and where new ones could surface.
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Health
Coronavirus Second Wave? Nope, The U.S. Is Still Stuck In The First One
The nation still sees more than 20,000 new cases a day, a number there's barely budged for weeks. Forecasters say we're looking at tens of thousands more deaths this summer.
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Health
77 Nobel Laureates Denounce Trump Officials For Pulling Coronavirus Research Grant
In a letter sent to Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar, these U.S. scientists said they were "gravely concerned" about the abrupt termination of a federal grant to EcoHealth Alliance.
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Health
Fact Check: Trump Administration Document And Its 3,000 Deaths A Day Scenario
A forecast of 3,000 deaths a day appeared in an internal document first obtained by The New York Times. But the epidemiologist who authored the analysis tells NPR the work is incomplete.
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Politics
Trump Administration Rejects Government Report On COVID-19 Death Toll
The administration pushed back against an internal government report, obtained by The New York Times, predicting the daily coronavirus death toll could nearly double in the U.S. by early June.