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Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Fresh Air Weekend collects the best segments from the week's programs and crafts them together for great weekend listening.

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People sit at tables at San Diego State University Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020, in San Diego. San Diego State University on Wednesday halted in-person classes for a month after dozens of students were infected with the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Radio Times
Home & Family
Mental Health
Public Health
Race & Ethnicity

How are teens and young adults coping?

In these tumultuous times, we check in on the mental health of teens and young adults who are reporting the highest rates of anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts.

Air Date: September 4, 2020 10:00 am

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The influenza virus. (Frederick Murphy/CDC)
NPR
Health Care
Medicine
Public Health

Flu season looms and scientists wonder how flu and COVID-19 might mix

With the annual flu season about to start, it's still unclear exactly how influenza will interact with COVID-19 if a person has both viruses.

5 years ago

A resident is pictured using a wheelchair inside a nursing home.
K-12
Pennsylvania
Public Health

Pa. coronavirus recovery: State issues new testing guidelines for nursing homes

The Wolf administration announced new guidelines for when, and how often, staff and residents of such facilities should be tested.

5 years ago

Studies of steroids, including the generic drug dexamethasone, have found that these drugs can reduce deaths in patients hospitalized with serious cases of COVID-19.
NPR
Medicine
Public Health

Inexpensive steroids can save lives of seriously ill COVID-19 patients

Multiple studies now confirm earlier research: two drugs that reduce an immune system's overreaction can help reduce deaths of hospitalized COVID-19 patients.

5 years ago

Defaulting renter with face mask receives letter giving notice of eviction from home on wooden table. (BackyardProductions/BigStock)
PlanPhilly
Housing
Public Health
Eyes on the Street

Eviction is bad for our health. Pa. must act to protect families.

When families are evicted, children suffer the consequences. As a pediatrician, I urge Pa. to protect families at a perilous time.

5 years ago

Laboratory technicians work at the mAbxience biopharmaceutical company in Garin, Argentina, Friday, Aug. 14, 2020. Under an agreement between Argentina and Mexico announced this week, the company is going to make an experimental coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University and the laboratory AstraZeneca, and if approved the vaccine will be distributed in Latin America. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
National
Public Health

CDC tells states: Be ready to distribute vaccines on Nov. 1

The timeline raised concern among public health experts about an “October surprise" — a vaccine approval driven by political considerations ahead of a presidential election.

5 years ago

World Health Organization
NPR
National
Public Health

US won’t join WHO-led coronavirus vaccine effort, White House says

By refusing to take part, the U.S. is effectively cutting itself off from the more than 170 countries in discussions to join the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access Facility.

5 years ago

Vials for potential COVID-19 vaccine
National
Public Health

Health officials worry nation not ready for COVID-19 vaccine

As the nation awaits a vaccine to end the pandemic, local health departments say they lack the staff, money and tools to distribute, administer and track millions of vaccines.

5 years ago

Demonstrators hold up signs as they gather at Brooklyn Housing court during a 'No Evictions, No Police' national day of action
NPR
Housing
Income Inequality
Public Health

CDC issues sweeping temporary halt on evictions nationwide amid pandemic

The move could prevent millions of evictions that housing advocates warn are looming. Landlords groups want to know who will pay for the lost rent.

5 years ago

The Federal Emergency Management Agency says that beginning Sept. 15, it will no longer reimburse states for personal protective equipment for nonemergency settings, including schools or courthouses. (Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
NPR
National
Public Health

FEMA says it will stop paying for cloth face masks for schools

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) says that beginning Sept. 15, it will no longer reimburse states for personal protective equipment for non-emergency settings.

5 years ago

In this Friday, June 12, 2020 file photo, a woman has blood drawn for COVID-19 antibody testing in Dearborn, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Biology
Public Health

Large antibody study offers hope for virus vaccine efforts

Antibodies that people make to fight the new coronavirus last for at least four months after diagnosis and do not fade quickly, as some earlier reports suggested.

5 years ago

Mason Merrill of Westampton (right), works out with trainer Angelo Prince at Tenacity Fitness in Hainesport, N.J. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
New Jersey
Public Health

New Jersey is sweating again as gyms reopen after five-month shutdown

With motivation, masks, and energetic music — gyms, and fitness centers in the Garden State reopened for the first time in five months since the pandemic started.

5 years ago

A 2015 image of the 5th Avenue bay beach in Seaside Park. (Justin Auciello/for WHYY)
Down the Shore
New Jersey
Public Health

Fecal bacteria closes N.J. beach for days; no swimming at two others

An unacceptable level of fecal bacteria continues to keep a New Jersey beach closed while swimming is restricted at two others.

5 years ago

Chadwick Boseman arriving for the 90th annual Academy Awards
Health Care
Medicine
Race & Ethnicity

Chadwick Boseman’s death was a surprise, but colon cancer deaths among Black men are all too common

A combination of things — access to primary care, chronic health conditions and environmental factors — may be to blame, but researchers still can’t say.

5 years ago

A woman is tested for COVID-19 at a walk-up testing site
NPR
National
Public Health

6 million coronavirus Infections now confirmed in US, a country in limbo

Although daily COVID-19 deaths have fallen somewhat in recent days, the number of infections has continued to rise in many places, with no end in sight.

5 years ago

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