Category: NPR

Children are being hospitalized for COVID-19 at record rates amid the current surge. Mary Louise Kelly puts questions from parents of kids under 5 to pediatric infectious disease doctor, Ibukun Kalu.

You could call them hobbies. But for some health workers facing burnout, creative outlets provide more than solace – they give a sense of meaning and community.

Cutting the isolation for positive cases to five days could lead to more infections if people don’t take masking seriously. A testing requirement, would have made the policy safer, experts say.

People who test positive need to isolate themselves for 5 days if they don’t show symptoms. The change reflects “what we know about the spread of the virus” and vaccine protection, the CDC chief says.

Alan Hawes hopes his photos of health care workers and COVID patients will show the toll of this pandemic — and convince the unvaccinated to get their COVID shots.

NPR’s Elissa Nadworny speaks to Morgan Eutermoser, an emergency room physician, about her experience working through Christmas Day during a COVID-19 surge in Colorado.

The number of new COVID cases in New York doubled in just three days. State officials say the impact of the winter omicron surge on the workforce is already being felt.

Here’s how their hospitals are doing nearly two years into the pandemic, what they are seeing in new omicron patients, and their thoughts on the wave of burnout affecting the industry.

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) goes far beyond the NFL. Everyday men and women worry they have the fatal disease, and they’ve turned to questionable brain products for help.

President Biden has rolled out a plan to help hospitals deal with omicron and the expected surge of patients. Experts say the support is welcome, but still doesn’t go far enough.