Category: NPR

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.

The coronavirus is shaping a generation of incoming doctors, as their residency training inside U.S. hospitals brings them face to face with a mystifying disease and frequent death.

After a brutal attack in Kabul, activists in Afghanistan write: “Our people are targeted and killed on a daily basis. Afghan women are calling for an end to it.”

NPR’s Scott Simon speaks with Daniella Concha, who is headed to Presbyterian Hospital in New York City to begin her medical residency.

A young medical resident learns new ways to reach and comfort his ill hospital patients — despite protective barriers that keep them far apart. He starts by turning down the noise.

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with Gabrielle Mayer, who graduated from medical school early to help out with the coronavirus patients at Bellevue Hospital in New York City a month ago, about her work.

Jeff Mohlstock from New Jersey has contracted the coronavirus and spent nearly two weeks in the hospital. He filmed his routine, offering a rare glimpse into the inside of a COVID-19 isolation unit.