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One in every thousand people has died of COVID-19 in the U.S. And California just passed 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases. This surge, likely from Thanksgiving travel, is making contact tracing efforts difficult across the country. Dr. Christina Ghaly, Director of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, says hospitals are being forced to treat COVID-19 patients in conference rooms and gift shops as beds fill up. To help contain the spread, Brett Dahlberg reports that some health officials in Michigan are asking people to do their own contact tracing. In New York City, WNYC's Fred Mogul found a contact tracer who is making home visits in an effort to alert people in at-risk categories. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

On a crisp morning in late March, health care workers in yellow hazmat suits arrived at St. Joseph's Senior Home in Woodbridge, New Jersey. They were responding to an outbreak of COVID-19 at the facility. But that response would make St. Joe's different than every other long-term facility in the state: it was the only such facility in New Jersey to be completely evacuated.NPR Investigations correspondent Dina Temple-Raston has been digging into why that happened — and whether some residents of St. Joe's might still be alive if it hadn't. More from her reporting is here.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

At the end of every year, the hosts of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour like to look back on some of their favorite things from the last 12 months. In this episode, they revisit some of the TV, film and music that helped us make it through 2020.Here's the full list:1. Moira's wedding officiant outfit in the series finale of Schitt's Creek2. Ted Lasso and the year in escapism3. Uncle Clifford and Lil Murda in the season 1 finale of P-Valley4. Michael Jordan watching interviews about him on an iPad in The Last Dance5. Parasite winning best picture at this year's Oscars, portending the further rise of non-English-language powerhouses6. The first 10 minutes of The Invisible Man7. Kentucky Route Zero8. "Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)" from David Byrne's American Utopia9. Fiona Apple chirping like a dolphin on "I Want You To Love Me"10. Cassidy Diamond (played by Shalita Grant) in the third season of Search Party11. "Uncle Naseem" (Season 2, Episode 9) of Ramy12. The Good Place series finaleLearn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy