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Whether your mild or moderate symptoms mean you have a cold, the flu, or COVID-19 doesn’t change the medical advice right now. Stay home, rest, and call or email your doctor if symptoms worsen.

People in France share everyone’s concerns about dealing with coronavirus — but thanks to the country’s universal health care, the French don’t have to worry about paying for tests or treatment.

The governor is calling on the National Guard to help maintain the containment area, by delivering food and helping to clean public spaces.

The California county includes the hospital that treated the first known U.S. case of community spread of COVID-19, which went undiagnosed for days because of problems with the U.S. testing program.

For millions of workers, remote work is not an option. Among them are home and health aides, who look after some of the most vulnerable, often themselves without health insurance and earning little.

Should “potential exposure” by a health worker to someone with coronavirus be enough to send that worker home for two weeks of self-quarantine? Health systems have begun debating relative risks.

A hospital in Seattle has set up a drive-through coronavirus testing clinic in its garage. The idea is to quickly test workers who have symptoms without putting other staff or patients at risk.

Drive-through coronavirus testing has arrived in Seattle. It allows people to simply roll down the window, get a nasal swab, and head home to wait for results.

On her visit to Cowlitz County in Washington state, NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with 26-year-old caretaker, Duayne Royston, about the political issues that matter to him this election year.

Seattle-area physician Brandon Fainstad tells NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro about being a healthcare worker at the American epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak.