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Despite Coronavirus Worries, Poll Workers Greet Voters In Wisconsin
Katherine Wilson says many voters at her polling place requested absentee ballots that never came. National guardsmen made voters stand at a proper distance and poll workers got some protective gear.
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Hydroxychloroquine Is Being Studied As A Way To Treat Coronavirus
NPR's Noel King talks to medicinal chemist Katherine Seley-Radtke about hydroxychloroquine, a malaria and arthritis drug touted by the president as a COVID-19 remedy with limited clinical evidence.
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How Is The Coronavirus Affecting Black Americans?
Numbers emerging from a few cities and states suggest higher death rates for African-Americans from COVID-19. The findings also reveal deeper disparities.
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After Nearly 40 Years And A Song, Stevie Nicks Hears Dove's Call
Stevie Nicks wrote these words in the song "Edge of Seventeen": Just like the white winged dove, sings a song sounds like she's singing. Nicks had never heard a dove's call until a few days ago.
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Pulley System Expands On Contactless Pizza Delivery
A TikTok video shows a way to retrieve a pizza from the delivery person. Using a pulley system, a box was lowered out of a second-story window. It was then hoisted back up, pizza inside.
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Party On, Online: Virtual Beer Pong Becomes An Emotional Lifeline For Workers
The virtual happy hour has taken on huge importance at a time when life is otherwise in lockdown. Workers are learning a lot more about their colleagues in the process.
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Morning News Brief
Data suggests Black Americans are dying from COVID-19 at higher rates than other groups. A Navy hospital ship in New York will now accept pandemic patients. And, after a lockdown, China reopens Wuhan.
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Acting Navy Secretary Resigns, USNS Comfort's Mission Is Changed
Defense officials say that the hospital ship USNS Comfort will now accept patients with Covid-19. And, the acting Navy secretary has resigned over his handling of a virus-stricken aircraft carrier.
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Pandemic Overwhelms New York City's System For Handling Its Dead
With the COVID-19 death toll rising, officials in New York City are considering creating a temporary cemetery on city property.
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Britain's Foreign Secretary Is De Facto Leader While Johnson Is Hospitalized
NPR's Noel King talks to Katy Balls, deputy political editor of the British magazine The Spectator, about the U.K.'s leadership structure amid Prime Minister Johnson's hospitalization for COVID-19.
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Singer-Songwriter John Prine Dies At 73
John Prine, one of America's most revered singer-songwriters, has died after being hospitalized with COVID-19 symptoms. Prine wrote beloved songs like "Hello In There" and "Angel From Montgomery."
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For Some Essential Workers, Jobs Are Still Insecure
When the coronavirus interrupted China's global shipping lines, fewer containers arrived at ports in the United States. For a truck driver in San Bernardino, Calif., that meant a reduction in income.