Health Care : NPR

When will the worst of the pandemic pass? What’s next in the government response? What can you do for your mental well-being during the crisis? NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro has some answers.

Before the CDC suggested Americans wear cloth masks in public, people were busy sewing masks for first responders. Vanessa Fulton talks about the effort she helped to launch in the D.C. area.

“It felt a lot like Groundhog Day,” Dr. Michael Saag told NPR’s Scott Simon, describing daily recurrences of the symptoms. He also tried a controversial treatment that he said he now regrets.

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Mike Bowen, whose company Prestige Ameritech makes surgical masks in Texas, about why he’s unhappy about the flood of orders coming in for his product.

NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with Dr. David Skorton, president and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges, about ways the U.S. should prepare for the next pandemic.

NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with Letitia James, attorney general of New York, about her call for nationwide access to abortion during the coronavirus pandemic.

Dr. Randy Tobler, CEO of Scotland County Hospital in Memphis, Missouri, tells NPR’s Michel Martin how his rural medical center is preparing for a rise in coronavirus cases.

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, on the federal health response to COVID-19.

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Gabrielle Mayer, who is graduating from medical school early to help the coronavirus-positive patients coming into Bellevue Hospital in New York City.

NPR’s Ari Shapiro speaks with emergency medicine physician Dr. Megan Ranney about treating COVID-19 patients, and UCLA epidemiologist Anne Rimoin answers questions about the spread of the virus.