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Illinois Health Care Workers Say Hospitals Will Run Out Of ICU Beds By Thanksgiving
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Vineet Arora, a hospitalist at the University of Chicago, about warning Illinois officials that hospitals will run out of intensive care unit bed by Thanksgiving.
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Residents Of Indian Capital Sound Alarms About Air Pollution Amid Diwali And Pandemic
New Delhi has some of the dirtiest air in the world, and smog is complicating COVID-19 cases. The upcoming sparkler-filled holiday of Diwali is expected to make air quality even worse.
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Biden Picks Longtime Aide Ron Klain As White House Chief Of Staff
The campaign team made the announcement Wednesday. An alumnus of the Obama-Biden administration, Klain previously served as Joe Biden's chief of staff when he was vice president.
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South Dakota Doctor On How His Hospital Is Strained As Coronavirus Cases Surge
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Shankar Kurra, vice president of medical affairs at Rapid City Hospital in South Dakota, about the staffing shortage at his hospital amid the surge of coronavirus cases.
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Public Health Officials Face A Need To Market Coronavirus Vaccination
News of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine's effectiveness has inspired hope around containing the coronavirus. But polls show that up to two-thirds of Americans say they are unlikely to get a vaccine.
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Floridians Vote To Increase State's Minimum Wage To $15 Per Hour
Florida voters approved boosting the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour. After suffering big losses on Election Day, some Democrats say it shows their party needs to embrace progressive ideas.
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Wars For Generations: Father And His Sons On Serving Together In Afghanistan And Iraq
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with retired Lt. Gen. Lawrence Nicholson of the Marine Corps and his two sons, Kevin and Andrew, who served under him in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Research Shows Otters Learn From Others How To Overcome New Foraging Challenges
New research shows that otters can learn to solve puzzles by watching other otters do them — and they seem to retain long-term memory for accomplishing the feats.
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Minnesota Rep. Tom Emmer On How The GOP Whittled Away At Democrats' House Majority
Tom Emmer, who also chairs the National Republican Congressional Committee, discusses how his party flipped seats in Florida and beyond and some Republicans' reluctance to acknowledge Joe Biden's win.
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Pompeo Fuels Administration's Baseless Claims Of Election Fraud
World leaders have been congratulating President-Elect Biden, but America's top diplomat, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, is fueling the Trump administration's claims of widespread election fraud.
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Utah Lt. Governor On Declaring State Of Emergency As Coronavirus Cases Rise
NPR's Audie Cornish interviews Utah Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox, now also the state's governor-elect, about Utah's state of emergency to address hospital overcrowding caused by the coronavirus.
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What A Biden Administration May Do To Change Policing
Joe Biden said on the campaign trail that he was for reforming policing — but not defunding it. NPR discusses what federal actions on law enforcement might be taken under a President Biden.