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Why Firefighters Are Facing A Growing Mental Health Challenge

Climate change is fueling more destructive, harder-to-control disasters like last year's massive wildfires. The mental and emotional toll for firefighters and first responders is alarming.
- Nathan Rott
Philanthropists' $15M 'vaccine equity initiative' will target hardest to reach in WA

The Seattle Foundation and its partners say they’re seeking to raise $15m in private donations towards a vaccine equity fund, to be matched by public dollars. The money is intended to help eliminate disparities in access to the Covid-19 vaccine across Washington state.
- Amy Radil
News Brief: Coronavirus Relief Package, Vaccine Distribution, Russia Protests

Lawmakers focus on Biden's $1.9 trillion plan to fight the pandemic. The U.S.' vaccination pace is looking good. And, Russians try a new way of protesting in support of Alexei Navalny.
Californians Taking Advantage Of Vaccine Rules For Parents With Disabled Kids

Parents of children with disabilities qualify for the COVID-19 vaccine in California. Health officials say it's been exploited by people who don't qualify, and individualized proof is now required.
- Jackie Fortier
New, Daily Coronavirus Cases Drop Below 100K For First Time In Months

Health experts caution communities not to lift coronavirus restrictions too soon as the nation continues on a downward trend of virus infections and deaths.
- Jaclyn Diaz
Life Kit: The Imposter Phenomenon

For NPR's Life Kit, reporter Diana Opong looks at the factors that contribute to experiencing impostor phenomenon and how to deal with them.
- Sylvie Douglis
As California Expands Vaccination, Some Worry Farm Workers Will Lose Out

Walter Newman, has been giving flu vaccines to California farm workers for decades. He talks to NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro about ensuring they get COVID-19 shots, even as the state runs low on doses.
- Lulu Garcia-Navarro
There's A Good Chance Your Valentine's Flowers Come From Colombia

The country is the top flower exporter to the U.S. When the pandemic hit, farmers feared they'd have to destroy flower beds and lay off thousands of workers. Here's why that didn't happen.
- John Otis
Coronavirus Cases Are Down, But More Kids Are Having Severe Complications

MIS-C, a post COVID illness that has affected more than 2,000 U.S. children, causes inflammation of the heart, lungs, brain and other organs. One D.C. pediatric ICU is nearly full of such patients.
- Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Can Frozen Food Spread The Coronavirus?

At a news conference this week, the World Health Organization made a surprising statement: The coronavirus could possibly transmit on frozen packages of food.
- Michaeleen Doucleff

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