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Out of Eden Walk: Walking through COVID

Out of Eden Walk

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek was thousands of miles into his Out of Eden Walk when he had to pause his journey in Myanmar to wait out the COVID-19 pandemic. Host Marco Werman speaks with him about the experience of walking and reporting through Asian regions made inaccessible by quarantines and lockdowns.

Army captain in scrubs administers COVID-19 vaccine to man in black shirt

The quest for a universal coronavirus vaccine

Medicine
A model of the coronavirus in red is displayed next to boxes of COVID-19 vaccines

China OKs first homegrown vaccine as COVID-19 surges globally

Health & Medicine
Four vertical syringes of SARS CoV-2 Vaccine for COVID-19

Pandemic set to widen global inequality

An illustration of a syringe, and inside it an hourglass keeping time

How and when will we know that a COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective?

Medicine
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Could llama antibodies be the key to a coronavirus treatment?

COVID-19

Researchers discovered that a special type of antibody found in llamas could be vital in fighting the coronavirus infection in humans. The World speaks to professor James Naismith, the director of the Rosalind Franklin Institute in the UK, and lead researcher in a new study on llama antibodies.

A restaurant posts a closed sign in Melbourne

Returning travelers in quarantine hotels may have triggered Melbourne’s latest lockdown

COVID-19

After getting a taste of some version of normalcy, Melbourne went into another lockdown this week. Five million residents will be barred from leaving their homes except for essential reasons and orders between Victoria closed between neighboring states are shut down.

a theater. with red carpet is full of plants instead of an audience.

Barcelona opera reopens to full house — of plants

COVID-19

Puccini’s “Crisantemi” was played in Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu before an audience of 2,292 plants that filled the venue to capacity.

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