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Will Stone
Will Stone is a former reporter at KUNR Public Radio.
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COVID-19 can cause symptoms that go well beyond the lungs, from strokes to organ failure. To explain these widespread injuries, researchers are studying how the virus affects the vascular system.
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COVID-19 symptoms like strokes and kidney damage are unusual for a respiratory disease. Researchers are looking into how the coronavirus damages blood vessels and what that means for treatment.
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The U.S. is heading into its third coronavirus spike since the start of the pandemic, with rural communities in the Midwest bearing the brunt of this latest surge in infections.
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A medical student and first-year resident looked for infection spikes in towns that hosted Trump rallies. The data isn't as clear cut as many might like.
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As COVID-19 cases increase, many rural communities, places which were largely spared during the early months of the pandemic, are now contending with a spike in infections and hospitalizations.
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Most states have surging coronavirus case counts — 15 are up 40% or more. The start of what could be a third U.S. peak in cases first took hold in rural states, and they are straining to keep up.
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Raging outbreaks in the Midwest and Great Plains are driving the numbers, but every region of the country is showing growth in new infections.
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Cases are surging in many places around the country. As we head into winter here's what public health forecasters think we can expect.
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The first coronavirus case in the U.S. was diagnosed about nine months ago. NPR reconstructs the timeline of the pandemic in this country and talks about the months to follow.
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One in four rural households report being unable to get medical care for serious problems, due to the pandemic, according to a new poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Harvard.