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As COVID-19 cases in Germany top 20,000 per day and social life is restricted, most schools and daycares remain open, unlike in spring.
From City Hall to the White House, our investigation found, officials let Triumph Foods stay open as hundreds of workers got coronavirus. Four died.
Inadequate housing, lack of transportation, financial woes, discrimination, and violence have plagued these impoverished places for generations, fueling increased stresses on health.
ScienceInsider followed up with vaccine experts to address some of the confusion surrounding the vaccine.
Scientists say mutations in the virus might reduce the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines.
A Russian institute announced its vaccine trial has had remarkable success. But the report is being met with raised eyebrows.
Scientists are becoming ever more creative in their search for ways to protect people from COVID-19.
The leftist state government of Kerala brought the number of daily new cases down to almost zero in the first few months. Much of the credit goes to K.K. Shailaja.
President-elect Joe Biden is wasting little time in moving to confront the pandemic, but the crisis could get much worse before he is able to begin to execute his plans.
The shock from the historically wet and destructive hurricanes of a few years ago may be fading for inland residents, but many people in coastal counties continue to live with the after-effects.
It’s an “amazing feat” that a vaccine has a clear efficacy signal just 11 months after SARS-CoV-2 was identified, said one researcher. But hurdles still remain for developers Pfizer and BioNTech.
Venezuela is participating in phase III trials for Sputnik V, a vaccine developed in Russia. But concerns surround the exclusion of the local scientific community from the clinical trials.
Camila DeChalus directed and produced a video for her project about how, with help from the Catholic Church, coffee farmers in rural Colombia are fighting against the impacts of climate change.
Young women are at particularly high risk for HIV in parts of sub-Saharan Africa, where about 5,000 of them acquire the disease each week. Is a drug to prevent HIV really the best solution? Amy Maxmen looks at alternative solutions in South Africa.
More than half of all HIV-positive individuals will experience an eye complication during their lifetime. One such complication is CMV retinitis, which can lead to permanent blindness.
Crashes by heavy commercial vehicles not only lead to loss of lives but also have a negative impact to the economy in East Africa.
Pulitzer Center grantees present their reporting at the Women Deliver International Conference 2016.
Two years after Euromaidan, the Russian seizure of Crimea and conflicts in eastern Ukraine, a depressing new reality has sunk in for many displaced Ukrainians: they're not getting their old lives back.
Pollution sickens and kills millions of people worldwide each year. This project explores the most toxic places with a focus on causes, consequences and possible solutions.
We might soon have a treatment for Huntington's disease, but the Latin American communities who helped scientists uncover the cause are too poor to benefit. Who will help these forgotten people?
Canada helps homeless alcoholics—by giving them free booze.
Cold War scientists once worried that a nuclear war could plunge the world into a deadly ice age. But why, three decades later, does Nuclear Winter still resonate?
Ebola survivors could be carrying live Ebola virus in their eyes. Many of them are going blind, but in fear of the epidemic's resurgence, hardly anyone is doing anything about it.
Cuban sanitariums are the government quarantine facilities for HIV positive people—critics called them prisons; supporters say they controlled the epidemic. Former residents say "it's complicated."
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Karim Chrobog's two-part documentary compares South Korea and the United States in their response to the threat of food depletion. He asks: why is the U.S. the world's largest food waster and South Korea the largest food recycler?
Photojournalists win top prizes for their reporting from Canada to Kenya.
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Paul Nevin's focus on child-maternal health in Kenya and Jae Lee's on emergency care in Uganda take national prizes. Reporting on Maasai women by Sydney Combs places as finalist.
An unusual treatment for Ottawa's homeless alcoholics.
Grantee Sim Chi Yin's short documentary tells the story of former Chinese gold miner He Quangui and his struggle with silicosis, an irreversible but preventable respiratory illness he contracted while working in small unregulated mines in Henan Province.
Pulitzer Center grantee places third in NPPA Best of Photojournalism Contest, Contemporary Issues Single Category, for her photography documenting healthcare for women in India 45 years after the publication of "The Population Bomb".
PRI reporter Rhitu Chatterjee's project on school lunches in Brazil was translated into Portuguese by Brazil's Department of Education.
Daniella Zalcman and Guillaume Saladin reflect on the suicide epidemic of Canada's First Nations and consider what can be done to stop the trend of self-destruction.
The Pulitzer Center led CUGH 2016's shorts film festival and communications workshop as part of an ongoing partnership.
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