Category: NPR

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.

There are some 130,000 medical residents in the U.S., and many are pulling long shifts in emergency departments and ICUs treating patients infected with the coronavirus.

Close examinations of the 1918 flu pandemic may give some clues as to what could happen in 2020. The U.S. is already seeing impatience with restrictions similar to ones experienced in 1918.

The number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the U.S. is still on the rise, but there are glimmers of hope. A vaccine developer has reported some encouraging, though early results.

The disruption in the illegal opioid trade had varying impacts around the country. As stay-at-home orders lift, that creates different risks of overdose that public health is trying to manage.

Congress authorized $100 billion to reimburse health care providers for losses linked to the pandemic, but much of that money has gone for Medicare patients, with low-income families left behind.

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.

At least 25,000 inmates in American prisons have tested positive for the virus. Inmates in Indiana say their complaints are being ignored.

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.