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As pregnant women and their doctors consider how the COVID-19 crisis is affecting pregnancy and care, maternity wards across the country are reconsidering policies on deliveries and visitors.

The Comfort will use its roughly 1,000 beds to treat patients who do not have the coronavirus disease COVID-19 but who urgently need other care.

NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with Army Chief of Staff, Gen. James McConville, about what the Army is doing to help bolster New York City’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.

States are preparing guidelines for when there’s not enough care to go around. Disability groups are worried that those standards will allow rationing that excludes people with disabilities.

A scientific brief from the World Health Organization says “current evidence” points to infectious respiratory droplets passed in “close contact” situations, but some say it’s too soon to be sure

Even many symptomatic patients and exposed health workers who are able to get a COVID-19 test must wait nearly a week to get results. Others get results in hours. Here’s why it varies so much.

NPR’s Ari Shapiro speaks with Dr. Brent Russell, an emergency room doctor in Ketchum, Idaho, about how he became ill with COVID-19 and his subsequent recovery from the disease.

Data from Johns Hopkins University, which tracks the global spread of the disease, shows more than 1,500 people have died of the disease in the U.S. as of Friday evening.

NPR’s Ailsa Chang speaks with Dr. Mitchell Katz, president and chief executive officer of NYC Health + Hospitals, about how the coronavirus is already challenging hospitals in New York City.

Despite a statewide effort to procure and distribute coronavirus testing supplies to hospitals in New York, some facilities still don’t have what they need to test patients quickly on-site.