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Teachers from around the country share their stories with NPR amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

'There's A Huge Disparity': What Teaching Looks Like During Coronavirus

Millions of U.S. educators are scrambling to replicate the functions of school without an actual school building. One principal's advice is to just "focus on loving our kids."

If a natural disaster hits during the COVID-19 pandemic, evacuation shelters like this one in California would be dangerous. Agencies are planning for alternatives.

'Hope Isn't A Strategy.' How To Prepare For A Natural Disaster During COVID-19

If a major hurricane, flood or wildfire happens during the pandemic, evacuation shelters could be dangerous and cross-state aid impossible. So disaster response experts are planning new strategies.

Former Vice President Joe Biden at a press conference in Wilmington, Del., in mid-March. His bid this week to allow 60-year-olds to get Medicare "reflects the reality," he says, "that, even after the current crisis ends, older Americans are likely to find it difficult to secure jobs."

Biden's Health Play In A COVID-19 Economy: Lower Medicare's Eligibility Age To 60

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden proposes letting 60-year-olds enroll in Medicare. He'd pay for the expansion out of general tax revenue, he says, not the Medicare fund.

Photo of the intermountain health care hospital

PM News Brief: Four COVID-19 Deaths, Olympia Hills & Gubernatorial Race

Friday evening, April 10, 2020Four New COVID-19 DeathsFour more COVID-19 related deaths in Utah were announced Friday bringing the state's total to 17.…

The Voice Of America defended itself on Friday against criticism from the Trump White House over its coverage of China. The federally funded news agency's headquarters are shown here in Washington, D.C.

White House Attacks Voice Of America Over China Coronavirus Coverage

The Trump administration alleges the Voice of America is relaying Chinese propaganda. Founded at the dawn of World War Two, the government-funded news agency is independent by law.

Work continues at a winery in Clarksburg, Calif., last month. Farms are operating as essential businesses amid the coronavirus pandemic.

White House Seeks To Lower Farmworker Pay To Help Agriculture Industry

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is working with Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to see how wage rates for immigrant farmworkers can be reduced. Critics say doing so will hurt all workers.

Felipe Samaniego officiates at a Roman Catholic Mass, streamed via Facebook from the Santo Tomás Moro church on Palm Sunday, in Monterrey, Mexico.

Mexico's Virtual Catholic Passion Plays Get Creative

With the country shut down for the month of April, Roman Catholic churches are bringing their Holy Week celebrations online to continue rituals and reach the faithful.

Public health experts say tracing who people infected with the coronavirus have been in contact with is a critical step in easing social distancing restrictions.

Apple And Google Build Smartphone Tool To Track COVID-19

The tech companies say their software would protect privacy while helping public health officials trace the spread of the coronavirus.

President Trump arrives to speak at the regular coronavirus task force briefing at the White House on Friday.

Trump To Announce Advisory Council On Reopening The Country, Shuttered By Coronavirus

"We're going to make a decision, and hopefully, it's going to be the right decision," President Trump said at Friday's White House task force briefing.

A patient on a wheelchair waits in the emergency room at a hospital in Güiria, Venezuela, on March 14. Human rights organizations recently warned that Venezuela faces catastrophic consequences from the new coronavirus pandemic, which threatens to overwhelm its crumbling health system.

Many Venezuelan Hospitals Lack Basics To Function, Let Alone Handle COVID-19

Doctors tell NPR many health workers have left the country and many hospitals don't have necessities, including soap and running water.

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