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Quarantined Health Workers Compound Staffing Shortages At California Hospitals
With a spike in COVID-19 infections, hospitals in California's San Joaquin Valley are suffering from a staffing shortage. It's made worse because hundreds of health care workers are quarantined.
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Here's How America's Crisis Feels Too Familiar To This Immigrant Who Has Covered War
No, Washington, D.C., is not Baghdad, despite now having a Green Zone of its own. But the events of Jan. 6 make the comparison more apt than any of us would wish.
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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.
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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.
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How Parents Can Address Kids' Pandemic Weight Gain
Upset routines and unhealthy parental habits have sapped children's fitness, says pediatric nurse practitioner Suzannah Stivison. She offers ways parents can help promote healthier habits.
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Rescued Goldfish In D.C. Pond Are Put Up For Adoption
The Humane Rescue Alliance in Washington, D.C., captured more than 140 goldfish from a backyard pond, named each one and put them all up for adoption.
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As Miss Navajo Nation, she helped her community through the pandemic
When Shaandiin Parrish was crowned Miss Navajo Nation in 2019, she didn't expect to win. She also didn't expect to be carrying the honor two years later and through the health crisis.
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'Squid Game' is the latest example of when subtitles are a little off
Netflix's Squid Game is a huge hit, but some say its subtitles are inaccurate. Podcast host Youngmi Mayer and translation professor Denise Kripper explain why things got lost in translation.
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Lulu Garcia-Navarro leaves Weekend Edition
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro bids Weekend Edition listeners a fond farewell after 17 years at the network.
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Haiti's kidnapping crisis is plunging the country even further into turmoil
Seventeen missionaries were kidnapped by an armed gang in Haiti on Saturday. It was the latest in what experts are calling a kidnapping crisis in the country — a crisis largely driven by one gang.
