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Coronavirus test results are coming back faster but still taking too long to help fight the pandemic effectively, a national survey shows.

The average wait time for results of a coronavirus test has dropped to about three days, but that is still too slow to keep infected people from unknowingly spreading the virus, researchers report.

NPR’s Ailsa Chang talks with Nasia Safdar, medical director of infection control and protection at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, about a spike in coronavirus cases in Wisconsin.

A vaccine will only work if a lot of people can get immunized. State health officials are working furiously to design outreach and distribution plans, with little clarity from the federal government.

Research shows that doctors’ unconscious bias can hurt patients of color. Some hospitals are trying to train doctors and stop disparate treatment.

The number of people working to stop COVID-19 outbreaks from spreading is far from the level needed in most states, according to a new NPR survey and analysis. Find out how your state is doing.

The company said it had paused further dosing in all of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate clinical trials while it investigated the volunteer’s illness.

Nebraska hospitals are warning that intensive care beds are getting scarce as coronavirus cases surge. Doctors say Nebraskans need to take responsibility for slowing the spread of the pandemic.

Minority Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are using their time to focus on what they call the perils presented by Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the existing U.S. health care system.

Doctors say people who have had COVID-19 can test positive but no longer be contagious. Trump’s doctor said Trump is “no longer a transmission risk to others” but did not say if Trump tested negative.