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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services says about 80% of nursing homes nationwide reported data to the CDC as required. The remaining 20% could face fines if they don’t comply.

Adm. Brett Giroir says he will be “demobilized” from his role overseeing coronavirus testing at FEMA in mid-June and going back to his regular job at the Department of Health and Human Services.

When he was 9 years old, Salk was inoculated by the polio vaccine developed by his father, Dr. Jonas Salk. Today, he is an optimistic about a COVID-19 vaccine but offers a warning.

NPR’s Ari Shapiro and Michel Martin are joined by NPR’s science correspondent Jon Hamilton to talk about the information about the coronavirus learned since the beginning of the pandemic.

Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, answers listener questions about immunity, the probability for another pandemic and the latest information on the coronavirus.

The so-called passports have been floated as a way to get people who’ve recovered from COVID-19 back to work safely. But a Harvard professor says creating an “immunodeprived” status is unethical.

A federal official says the White House had not approved the initial version, which included the warning, “The act of singing may contribute to transmission of COVID-19.”

Dr. Ming Lin was let go in March from a hospital in Bellingham, Wash., after posting criticisms and suggestions on social media. The ACLU is helping him sue for damages and job reinstatement.

The new guidance amounts to a midyear open-enrollment period and applies to firms that buy health insurance to cover their workers as well as to those that self-insure — paying claims on their own.

The end of May marks a deadline for the millions of people who have lost job-based health insurance in March to enroll in a new plan.