Health & Safety

Health & Safety

Restaurants Employ New Rules To Ensure The Safety Of Dine-In Customers

3:45pm May 19, 2020

Restaurants around the country are beginning to reopen and welcome back dine-in customers. To ensure everyone's safety, they had to adjust their rules on engagement for customers and staff.

Queue Listen Now

Houses Of Worship Around The Country Are Struggling To Reopen

3:45pm May 19, 2020

by Tom Gjelten

The closure of churches due to the coronavirus could have long-lasting effects congregations. Some people say they became more connected with their faith, and others may be drifting away.

Queue Listen Now

Health & Safety

Remdesivir 101: What Is This Drug, Are There Alternatives And How Much It Might Cost?

3:45pm May 19, 2020

by Sydney Lupkin

Various experimental drugs are being studied as potential COVID-19 treatments, but remdesivir is the furthest along right now. The federal government has already shipped remdesivir to all 50 states.

Queue Listen Now

Coronavirus Update: CDC Publishes A Report About The Coronavirus Outbreak In Arkansas

3:45pm May 19, 2020

NPR's economics and science correspondents discuss the latest in the nation's response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Queue Listen Now

Contact Tracing Helps Scientists To Study The Ways The Coronavirus Spreads

3:45pm May 19, 2020

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Muge Cevik, an infectious disease specialist at the University of St. Andrews in the U.K., about scientists using contact tracing to learn how the coronavirus spreads.

Queue Listen Now

Health & Safety

Members Of WHO Vote On The Need To Investigate Global Coronavirus Response

3:45pm May 19, 2020

by Jason Beaubien

The World Health Organization's annual meeting has ended in Geneva on Tuesday. Member states have voted on the need for an independent investigation into the global response to the pandemic.

Queue Listen Now

China Leads The Worldwide Race To Develop A COVID-19 Vaccine

3:45pm May 19, 2020

by John Ruwitch

China is leading the global race in the development of a COVID-19 vaccine. Half of the vaccines that have already gone into clinical trials were discovered by Chinese companies.

Queue Listen Now

A sign instructs those entering the lobby of the Paul Reed Smith Guitars plant to be screened as the facility prepared to reopen last week in Stevensville, Md.

Maryland Reports Largest Rise Yet In Coronavirus Cases 4 Days After Reopening

3:45pm May 19, 2020

by Bill Chappell

Roughly 25% of the 7,152 tests in the most recent 24-hour period resulted in positive coronavirus diagnoses.

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused routine and life-saving procedures for patients with cancer to be sidelined and delayed. Postponed chemotherapy is sometimes part of the hold-up, with clinics able to handle fewer patients safely each day.

Health & Safety

For Cancer Patients, Anguish Grows Over Deferred Surgery As Risk Rises

3:45pm May 19, 2020

by Yuki Noguchi

With states starting to reopen, bans on "nonessential" surgeries are beginning to lift, too. But there's a huge backlog of cases that have only gotten more urgent and heartbreaking for many patients.

Queue Listen Now

The Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday heard testimony about coronavirus economic relief efforts from Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.

Senators Clash Over How Soon To Reopen The Economy

3:18pm May 19, 2020

by Scott Horsley

Lawmakers squabbled over how quickly the economy can rebound from the coronavirus shutdown and whether the government is doing enough to support struggling families and businesses.