‘No End in Sight’: Inside Covid-Hit Rural North Dakota

Health workers at a 14-bed hospital in North Dakota struggle to keep friends' family members alive, as rates of Covid-19 infections soared.

I worked with the frontline workers at Unity Medical Center in the small towns of Grafton, North Dakota to get a first hand glimpse of one day under these stressful conditions.

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Reported, produced, and edited by Alexandra Ostasiewicz.

Covid vaccine: Young teens in US react to getting the jab

A day after the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine was approved for Americans aged 12 to 15, adolescents queued up in Fairfax, Virginia, to be the first of their peer group to get the shot.

Here is their experience, advice, and what they're looking forward to once vaccinated.

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Reported, produced, and edited by Alexandra Ostasiewicz.

Funeral directors reflect on 200,000 Covid deaths in the US

As the US Covid-19 death toll passed 200,000, owners and directors of funeral homes across the US spoke with me about how the loss of life has affected the families and communities that they serve.

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Reported, produced, and edited in 24 hours by Alexandra Ostasiewicz.

Trump-aged Covid survivors on the president and the pandemic

When President Trump was diagnosed with Covid, we spoke with two men of a similar age to the 74-year-old president who had also been hospitalized with Covid-19.

Glenn Perkins and Matt Thomas both had very different recovery experiences from the president's. And while both are Republicans, the two have differing views on Trump.

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Primary editing by Alexandra Ostasiewicz. Reported and co-produced with Joaquim Moreira Salles.