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News Articles: Series: The Coronavirus Crisis

Consumer prices — including gas — are surging at their highest annual pace in around 40 years.

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  • Economy

Inflation is still surging and some Democrats see one culprit: Greedy companies

Consumer prices are soaring at their highest annual pace in almost 40 years. Some progressives such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren blame corporate profiteering, but most economists scoff.

January 12, 2022
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By:
  • Scott Horsley
A woman walks by a closed store in a mall in Montreal on Jan. 2.

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  • World

In Quebec, people who refuse to be vaccinated for COVID will face a financial penalty

The Canadian province's premier said not getting vaccinated leads to consequences for the health care system and not all Quebecers should pay for that.

January 11, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
A woman checks in for her flight at a United Airlines counter at Dulles International Airport on December 27, 2021.

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  • Business

United says 3,000 employees have COVID, but its vaccine mandate has saved lives

In a memo to employees, United CEO Scott Kirby said the airline has 3,000 employees who are currently positive for Covid but that zero of its vaccinated employees are currently hospitalized.

January 11, 2022
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
A medical worker puts on a mask before entering a negative pressure room with a COVID-19 patient in the ICU ward at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass., last week.

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  • Health

U.S. COVID hospitalizations hit new record high, raising risks for patients

There are more patients and, in some places, not enough health care workers to go around. Research shows the crowding will impact care and increase mortality for all patients.

January 11, 2022
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By:
  • Will Stone and
  • Carrie Feibel
GPB News NPR

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  • Health

Viruses evolve and weaken over time — what does that mean for the coronavirus?

Ayesha Rascoe talks with biologist Jennie Lavine from biotech firm Karius about how viruses evolve, why they tend to become weaker over time, and what this means for the coronavirus.

January 09, 2022
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By:
  • Ayesha Rascoe
A booster dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is prepared during a vaccination clinic on Dec. 29 in Lawrence, Mass. The FDA is now shortening the wait time between the second dose and the booster to five months from six months.

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  • Health

FDA shortens the wait time between Moderna vaccine and booster to 5 months

Now, both the Pfizer and the Moderna booster shots can be given five months after the second dose of vaccine — down from six months.

January 07, 2022
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By:
  • Deepa Shivaram
An employee at a restaurant in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, puts up a sign on June 3, 2021, looking for workers with the promise of free food for new hires.

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  • Economy

Employers added only 199,000 jobs in December even before omicron started to surge

U.S. employers added 199,000 jobs in December as the unemployment rate fell to 3.9%, marking a second consecutive month of disappointing numbers.

January 07, 2022
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By:
  • Scott Horsley
Pro-union pins sit on a table during a watch party for a Starbucks employees union election on Dec. 9 in Buffalo, N.Y.

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  • Business

Unionized Starbucks workers walk out in Buffalo, citing safety worries over COVID

Employees of a Starbucks store in upstate New York who voted to unionize last month walked off the job, saying they lacked the staff and resources to work safely amid surging COVID-19 cases.

January 06, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A doctor loads a dose of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine into a syringe, on Dec. 2, 2021, at a mobile vaccination clinic in Worcester, Mass.

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  • Children's Health

CDC recommends Pfizer COVID booster for kids as young as 12

The new recommendation for adolescents age 12-17 came hours after a panel of CDC advisers voted in favor of it. The boosters should be given five months after initial immunization.

January 05, 2022
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin
A health worker administers a dose of a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination clinic at the Norristown Public Health Center in Norristown, Pa., Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021.

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  • Health

The COVID-19 vaccine shows no link to pre-term births, a new CDC study concludes

The study of more than 40,000 pregnancies found that vaccination status had practically no impact on whether a child was born prematurely or smaller or less developed than expected.

January 05, 2022
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By:
  • Tien Le
French President Emmanuel Macron during departures at the end of an EU Summit in Brussels, last month. Macron told a French newspaper this week that he wanted to "piss off" the unvaccinating, drawing the ire of opposition politicians.

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  • Europe

France's Macron takes heat after saying he wants to 'piss off' the unvaccinated

The French president made the remarks to a newspaper on Tuesday, causing opposition lawmakers to call a halt to debate on a new nationwide mandate.

January 05, 2022
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
Passengers look out from the Spectrum of the Seas cruise ship docked in Hong Kong on Wednesday. Thousands of passengers were being held on the ship for coronavirus testing after health authorities said nine passengers were linked to a recent omicron cluster and ordered the ship to turn back.

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  • Asia

Hong Kong bans flights from U.S. and 7 other countries as omicron surges

Hong Kong authorities announced a two-week ban on flights from eight countries and held 2,500 passengers on a cruise ship for coronavirus testing as the city attempted to stem an omicron outbreak.

January 05, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Women wearing face masks to protect against COVID-19 look at their smartphones at a public park in Beijing Wednesday. China is reporting a major drop in local COVID-19 infections in the northern city of Xi'an, which has been under a tight lockdown for the past two weeks.

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  • Asia

Residents of Xi'an, China, react to COVID lockdowns with outrage and humor

Lockdowns are so strict and so prolonged in the Chinese city that residents have taken to social media to complain and joke about a lack of basic supplies.

January 05, 2022
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By:
  • Emily Feng and
  • Aowen Cao
People wait in line to receive a COVID-19 test on Tuesday in New York. The U.S. recorded more than 1 million COVID-19 cases on Monday.

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  • Health

Things seem grim now. But America's COVID situation could get better in 6-8 weeks

In the face of rising COVID-19 cases, Dr. Bob Wachter of the University of California, San Francisco, offers reasons to be hopeful about the pandemic's outlook in the months ahead.

January 05, 2022
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By:
  • Mary Louise Kelly,
  • Noah Caldwell,
  • and 1 more
Seth Meyers and host Jimmy Fallon appear on <em>Late Night With Jimmy Fallon</em> on Jan. 28, 2014, in New York City.

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  • Television

Late-night hosts Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers test positive for COVID-19

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night With Seth Meyers are both taped at New York City's 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Meyers' show has been canceled for the rest of this week.

January 04, 2022
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  • Jonathan Franklin
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