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How Hospitals Are Laying Off Workers During The Pandemic, Continued

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with reporter Will Stone and emergency room nurse Shawn Reed about hospitals and other health care providers losing money and laying off workers during the pandemic.
I am the nurse manager on the Covid ICU. We have the sad stories, and those who have beaten this

Amy Haverland is the nurse manager on the Covid intensive care unit at UW Medical Center. She shared what it was like to have her home base turned into the place for the sickest of the sick with coronavirus.
- Isolde Raftery
Doctors In Training Learn Hard Lessons During The Pandemic

There are some 130,000 medical residents in the U.S., and many are pulling long shifts in emergency departments and ICUs treating patients infected with the coronavirus.
- Will Stone
Non-urgent health and dental procedures cleared to resume in Washington state

Gov. Jay Inslee issued a proclamation on Monday allowing health and dental care providers to move forward with non-urgent procedures, if they can meet certain safety criteria. The measure is effective immediately and will remain in place until further notice.
- Liz Brazile
Despite FDA Caution, Trump Says He Is Taking Hydroxychloroquine As A Preventative

The impact of the drug on the virus is being studied, but there is not yet evidence from medical trials – and there have been some warnings about side effects from taking the medicine.
- Roberta Rampton
World-Wide Travel Restrictions Violate International Health Regulations

Countries around the world have imposed various travel bans to fight the pandemic. But those restrictions are contradicting international health regulations and might not be viable long-term.
- Geoff Brumfiel
Former President Obama Calls Out President Trump In The Commencement Speech

President Donald Trump has been criticizing Former President Barack Obama for weeks. And the duel has escalated this weekend, as Obama has leveled some of his sharpest public criticism toward Trump.
- Domenico Montanaro
Pompeo Blasts WHO And China For Excluding Taiwan From This Week's Health Assembly

By not inviting Taiwan to its health assembly, the World Health Organization kept out "scientific expertise on pandemic disease" and "damaged the WHO's credibility," the secretary of state said.
- John Ruwitch
The Serbian President's 'Very Dystopian And Creepy' Political Rally

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic faced a wall of screens and launched into a campaign speech as people on the screens applauded and whooped. The virtual rally drew comparisons to Black Mirror.
- Joanna Kakissis
Antibodies from the 2003 SARS outbreak might help protect against Covid-19

New findings indicate that an antibody produced during recovery from the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 2003 might provide protection against the novel coronavirus. The antibody could be used to develop treatments for Covid-19.
- Liz Brazile

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