Category: NPR

After weeks of social distancing and self-quarantine, listen to participants from NPR’s Outbreak Diaries project about how they’re spending their time and preserving their sanity.

NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with CEO and physician Takeisha Davis, who works at New Orleans East Hospital, about how her community is holding up during the pandemic.

NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to psychiatrist and loneliness expert Sue Varma about coping while self-isolating.

States are recruiting medical students and retired doctors to help fight COVID-19. Dr. Nan Cochran shares her advice and worries with her daughter, Josie Fisher, who is beginning her residency.

More than 20,600 people have died from the virus as of early Sunday morning, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

When will the worst of the pandemic pass? What’s next in the government response? What can you do for your mental well-being during the crisis? NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro has some answers.

“I didn’t know if each night I would deteriorate and have to go in the hospital, or whether I would survive the night,” says Michael Saag, an epidemiologist at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.

The CDC says reopening the U.S. economy during the coronavirus pandemic will require very aggressive contact tracing. WBUR health reporter Martha Bebinger talks about what that entails.

Before the CDC suggested Americans wear cloth masks in public, people were busy sewing masks for first responders. Vanessa Fulton talks about the effort she helped to launch in the D.C. area.

“It felt a lot like Groundhog Day,” Dr. Michael Saag told NPR’s Scott Simon, describing daily recurrences of the symptoms. He also tried a controversial treatment that he said he now regrets.