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The wide-ranging ways in which COVID-19 is hurting global business
Some factories are beginning to reopen, but labor shortages continue. In a recent poll of U.S. companies by Shanghai's American Chamber of Commerce, 78 percent said they lack staff to resume full production.
Losing sleep over the quest for a perfect night's rest
A boom in technology promising to improve sleep has an ironic side effect: orthosomnia. Thanks to sleep trackers, people get so obsessed with perfect sleep that they are losing sleep over it.
Teens are still vaping flavors, thanks to new disposable vape pens
Despite enforcement efforts to stop teen vaping, kids are getting their hands on a new array of disposable products that come in sweet and fruity flavors.
Amish kids were dying mysteriously. Mayo scientists solved it. But can they treat it?
Young, healthy Amish children were dying unexpectedly across the country. It took Mayo researchers more than a decade to figure out why — and now, they’re trying to find a treatment.
Fear and misinformation spread alongside COVID-19, the new, deadly strain of coronavirus
Over 71,000 people across the globe have been infected with COVID-19, the new, deadly strain of coronavirus. Two physicians joined MPR News to help sort fact from fiction Monday morning at 9.
Fact-checking 'Contagion': In wake of coronavirus, the 2011 movie is trending
NPR asked epidemiologists and doctors to assess the science in the 2011 movie, in which the character played by Gwyneth Paltrow starts a global pandemic. Spoiler alert: The movie does a pretty good job.
5 years after Indiana's historic HIV outbreak, many rural places remain at risk
Fewer than a third of the 220 counties deemed by the federal government as vulnerable to similar outbreaks have active syringe exchange programs, which make clean needles available to drug users and have been found to reduce the spread of HIV and hepatitis C.
Halfway through U.S. quarantines, two women describe 'surreal,' lonely waiting
A New Orleans law professor and a New Jersey financial analyst are waiting for their stints in the first federal quarantine in a half-century to end. Here's a glimpse of their daily lives.