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Military personnel prepare for the opening of a mass COVID-19 vaccination site in the Queens, N.Y.,on Feb. 24. Seth Wenig/POOL/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Coronavirus Cases Are Surging In Europe. Why The U.S. Is In Better Shape — For Now

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It's impossible to know how often college students are getting vaccinated. Rumors of it happening illegitimately are widespread, but many situations aren't so duplicitous upon closer examination, because the vaccinated students are actually eligible, because they work in labs or health care settings, or have underlying health issues that make them high risk for severe COVID-19. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption

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How A New Deal Legacy Is Building Clean Energy In Rural North Carolina

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Researchers say they may have found a reason for a rare blood clotting condition that has occurred in some people who received the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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COVID-19 Vaccination Has Been Conjuring Up Emotions And Memories

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A thin strip of sand is all that stands between multimillion-dollar homes on the Southern California coast and a rising Pacific Ocean. A state bill aims to buy, then rent out such properties until they're no longer habitable. Axel Koester/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption

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Lava flows Saturday from the Fagradalsfjall volcano on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula. The long-dormant volcano erupted Friday evening. Icelandic Coast Guard/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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A researcher with Franceville International Medical Research Centre collects bats in a net on November 25, 2020 inside a cave in Gabon. Scientists are looking for potential sources for a possible next coronavirus pandemic. Steeve Jordan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Next Pandemic: Scientists Fear Another Coronavirus Could Jump From Animals To Humans

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President George W. Bush speaks about his administration's national strategy for pandemic preparedness and response at William Natcher Center of the National Institutes of Health November 1, 2005 in Bethesda, Maryland. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption

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Jeevan Guha, 6, offers a view of pandemic-era schooling with this homemade sign in San Francisco. The sign reads, "I miss my school." Yalonda M. James/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images hide caption

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CDC Says Schools Can Now Space Students 3 Feet Apart, Rather Than 6

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Rick Doblin: How Can We Use Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy To Treat Trauma?

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Ariel Waldman: What Can We Learn From Microscopic Life In Antarctica?

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Emily Levesque: How Have Telescopes Transformed Our Understanding Of The Universe?

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The U.S. Has A History Of Linking Disease With Race And Ethnicity

(Encore episode.) The coronavirus is all over the headlines these days. Accompanying those headlines? Suspicion and harassment of Asians and Asian Americans. Our colleague Gene Demby, co-host of NPR's Code Switch podcast, explains that this is part of a longer history in the United States of camouflaging xenophobia and racism as public health and hygiene concerns. We hear from historian Erika Lee, author of "America For Americans: A History Of Xenophobia In The United States."

The U.S. Has A History Of Linking Disease With Race And Ethnicity

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Yunseo Choi won first place Wednesday in this year's Regeneron Science Talent Search STEM competition. Society for Science hide caption

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Matchmaker, Matchmaker Make Me An Algorithm: STEM Contest Winner Pairs Data

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Dr. Sabine Straus, chair of the European Medicines Agency's Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee, said Thursday that the committee had concluded there is no increase in the overall risk of blood clots with the AstraZeneca vaccine. Screengrab by NPR/YouTube/European Medicines Agency hide caption

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Climate change is also making ocean waters more acidic, potentially harming shellfish like oysters. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption

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One Of Biden's Biggest Climate Change Challenges? The Oceans

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An elderly couple wearing face masks walks in Madrid on April 30, 2020 during a national lockdown to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 disease. Gabriel Bouys/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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