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April 30, 2020 | Science Magazine
NIH Launches Competition to Speed COVID-19 Diagnostics
The NIH announced a $1.5 billion initiative to speed breakthroughs in diagnostic tests for the virus that causes COVID-19.
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April 30, 2020 | The Philadelphia Inquirer
Portraits of a Pandemic: This West Philly High School Teacher Struggles to Reconnect With Her Students
A Philadelphia teacher worries about her students as they face extraordinary challenges during COVID-19.
April 29, 2020 | Science Magazine
How the Pandemic Made This Virologist an Unlikely Cult Figure
Christian Drosten is one of the world’s foremost experts on coronaviruses; his career has closely tracked their emergence as a global threat. Now, he is also a popular—if nerdy—hero.
April 29, 2020 | Science Magazine
Why Don't Some Coronavirus Patients Sense Their Alarmingly Low Oxygen Levels?
Among the many surprises of the new coronavirus is one that seems to defy basic biology: infected patients with extraordinarily low blood-oxygen levels, or hypoxia, scrolling on their phones, chatting with doctors, and generally describing themselves as comfortable. Clinicians call them happy hypoxics.
April 29, 2020 | St. Louis Public Radio
Life in St. Louis’ Most Vulnerable Neighborhoods in the Time of Coronavirus
Add the looming threat of a pandemic to a toxic stew of disadvantages in St. Louis communities.
April 28, 2020 | Pulitzer Center
Chicago's Pandemic Recovery Process
Peter Slevin, who teaches at Campus Consortium partner Medill School of Journalism, writes for The New Yorker about the "perilous next phase" of Chicago's recovery from the coronavirus.
April 28, 2020 | Science Magazine
Reopening Puts Germany’s Much-Praised Coronavirus Response at Risk
German states may now be making decisions that will come back to haunt the country.
April 27, 2020 | Pulitzer Center
'Now It Was in My Lungs': Wake Forest Reporting Fellow's Account of Catching Coronavirus
Wake Forest Reporting Fellow alum Rafael Lima puts his life on hold once he returns home to Brazil after contracting coronavirus on a study abroad program in Belgium.
April 24, 2020 | El Surtidor, CLIP
Paraguay Loses in the Global Race for Ventilators (Spanish)
In the fierce global battle to acquire life-saving ventilators, Paraguay faces a slew of challenges.
April 24, 2020 | Science Magazine
NIH Organizes Hunt for Drugs
Researchers are already developing more than 100 treatments and vaccines to stem the COVID-19 pandemic.
April 24, 2020 | Science Magazine
Survivors' Burden
What awaits the sickest COVID-19 patients after they leave the hospital?
April 24, 2020 | Pulitzer Center
What Now?
Over the course of a week, the world we knew turned upside down. For Pulitzer Center intern and Northwestern University in Qatar student Manan Bhavnani, the question has been: “What now?”