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More than 2,600 health care workers around Detroit have tested positive for the coronavirus. They’re adapting while grappling with “survivor guilt” and the loss of their coworkers.

Newly released data shows the toll the disease is taking on doctors, nurses and other health care workers. Nurses’ groups call for increased protection for frontline staff.

People of color and lower-income populations are more concerned about contracting coronavirus and spreading it unknowingly to others.

In Philadelphia, New Orleans and Los Angeles, former safety-net hospitals sit empty. But reopening a closed hospital, even when demand for health resources spikes, is not easy or cheap.

“Any plan to reopen society MUST be driven by data and experts,” said Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York, which is forming a regional coalition. California will work with Oregon and Washington.

“I know we will succeed somewhat and we will fail somewhat,” says one of the plan’s chief architects. “We won’t be able to find every single person — but we will hopefully prevent a lot of deaths.”

The word “hope” was also projected onto the statue towering over Rio de Janeiro, along with the phrase for “Stay at Home” — the message nurses and doctors are telling people around the world.

Anne Caprara is part of the effort in Illinois to secure medical supplies during the pandemic. She tells NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro and Eric Westervelt that the market is haphazard.

States are competing against one another — and the federal government — for medical supplies to deal with the coronavirus crisis.

Stanford is testing for coronavirus antibodies so they can determine who has been exposed and who could potentially go back to school or work. NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.