Health Care : NPR

NPR’s Ari Shapiro speaks with Dr. Celine Gounder, an epidemiologist and infectious disease specialist, about what the data tells about the state of the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S.

NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with reporter Will Stone and emergency room nurse Shawn Reed about hospitals and other health care providers losing money and laying off workers during the pandemic.

NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with reporter Will Stone and emergency room nurse Shawn Reed about hospitals and other health care providers losing money and laying off workers during the pandemic.

To stop COVID-19 infections, hospitals banned visitors. But that’s hard for patients who can’t speak.

NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to MIT Technology Review’s Gideon Lichfield about self-contained bubbles or pods that aim to keep the pre-pandemic rules of socialization.

NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks Joshua Santarpia of the University of Nebraska Medical Center about the new research into how the coronavirus is transmitted through the air.

NPR’s Scott Simon speaks with Daniella Concha, who is headed to Presbyterian Hospital in New York City to begin her medical residency.

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with Gabrielle Mayer, who graduated from medical school early to help out with the coronavirus patients at Bellevue Hospital in New York City a month ago, about her work.

Dr. Elisabeth Poorman, a general internist at the University of Washington School of Medicine, answers listener questions about caring for or being immunocompromised patients themselves.

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with Dan Diamond, a health reporter for Politico, about who Rick Bright is and what his whistleblower complaint is about.