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Get friendly with community leaders; be prepared to be judged by others. Disease detectives from California and Liberia share their best insights.

To contain the coronavirus, the U.S. needs to be able test a lot of people. But we’re facing a shortage of a key ingredient: the swab. Here’s why these swabs are so hard to source.

NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with pediatrician Cara Natterson about how the coronavirus pandemic — and our response to it — is affecting kids in a key developmental age group: middle school.

NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with ProPublica’s Duaa Eldeib about her report, “The First 100,” which looks at the reasons why 70 of the first 100 COVID-19 deaths in Chicago were African Americans.

NPR’s Scott Simon speaks with Dr. Alfredo Mena Lora of Chicago’s St. Anthony Hospital about how his institution is faring with COVID-19 amid a budget shortfall.

Dr. Abraar Karan, an internal medicine physician and clinical fellow at Harvard Medical School, answers listener questions about the latest in the coronavirus testing.

In the 1950s, as Dr. Jonas Salk and virologist Albert Sabin worked to create a vaccine to prevent infantile paralysis, the threat from polio was already long familiar to Americans.

Dr. Tracey Henryan, an assistant health director at Grady Primary Care Center in Atlanta, answers listener questions on health disparities and treatments for COVID-19.

As more and more people get tested for antibodies to the coronavirus, infectious disease specialists worry that those tested — and their employers — may not understand the limits of the results.

Many people have lost their health insurance along with their jobs during the pandemic. NPR’s health policy correspondent answers listener questions on how to navigate the health care system now.