Jennifer Portman

Deputy National Editor, NPR

[Jennifer Portman @jmportman]

All the best to @theharryshearer! I have been listening to your radio show from the very beginning - since 1983, when I would roller skate up the bike path from Venice to Santa Monica. Please take care of yourself!

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This a great graphic that explains how long the #coronavirus is known to survive things.

https://t.co/8UPiXcFUJO

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Our fab reporter @eweise did a nice job breaking down potential drug treatments for COVID-19. It's going to be a hot minute. Don't self-medicate!

https://t.co/iKtoOEnYVg

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I've been listening to John Barry's "The Great Influenza" and just got to the part where he described what happened in Alaska when the Spanish flu made it there. Harrowing doesn't begin to describe it. Glad @TrevorHughes checked in up there.
https://t.co/TTtS9y3jG8

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For seniors, lives bookended by pandemics: polio and #COVIDー19

“Today in a way is a reverse, because back then our parents were so worried for us kids and now it’s my kids who are so worried about me,” says Sue Gray, 84, of Chicago.

https://t.co/8peiKeNwHs

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Join our new #coronavirus Facebook group

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Really breaking down how a virus works #coronavirus
https://t.co/hZuG967AZ8

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You are so awesome! Very proud of all your work - and the work to come!

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Follow @DavidsonHiers for news about @LeonSchools response to #coronavirus

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Pretty cool graphic here that shows step-by-step how the #coronavirus makes its way through your body

https://t.co/lKCnIaZuP7

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Ex-president of medical college spent $82,000 in school funds for personal shopping sprees https://t.co/MU6OyfA1Ua via @usatoday

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Is marijuana linked to psychosis, schizophrenia? It's contentious, but doctors, feds say yes https://t.co/Xa1aWF91io via ⁦@USATODAYhealth⁩

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Folks in Plains aren't too worried, yet: https://t.co/c7Hyq5gDvt

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This judge doesn't pull punches. She'll be doling out more sentences today for a couple who tried to cheat their daughter into college. Wonder if Talwani will have more choice words https://t.co/LykAYeBYUd

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This week, most of the Deep South has been hotter than Death Valley, says the NWS. https://t.co/cH1Pai4Fjz

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This is the virus that killed my grandmother in the late 1940s when my mom was just six and her sister was a baby. https://t.co/SKkc99SkKY

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Consider this: "In Deming, New Mexico, federal immigration authorities dealing with overcrowded federal properties have dumped more than 7,500 migrants on the streets of a community with a population of 14,000." https://t.co/4EnrLD2vea

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Huffman pays $15k gets 14 days in prison, Sloane pays $250k gets 4 months https://t.co/EeNG1ePtY8

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Set aside some time to take in this incredible, insightful, important effort by more than two dozen of my talented, committed USA TODAY Network colleagues https://t.co/RGBJezZAj4

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Check out this article from USA TODAY:

Felicity Huffman sentenced to two weeks in prison, $30,000 fine for college admissions scandal

https://t.co/M9n179S42O