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International Medical Corps has been deployed to New York to help manage the response to COVID-19. NPR's Noel King talks to Susan Mangicaro, a nurse who is leading the nonprofit's work on the ground.

Medical staff have described war-like conditions in New York City hospitals. Mayor Bill de Blasio talks to NPR's David Greene about the city's efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic.

Newly released revisions to a well-respected COVID-19 model translates into good news for the United States. The number of Americans expected to die from the coronavirus has been lowered.

NPR's Noel King speaks with inmate John J. Lennon, who is incarcerated at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in New York, about prison conditions amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Some health care workers say they're exhausted and burning out from the stress of treating a stream of critically ill patients in an increasingly overstretched health care system.

Small-town hospitals were already closing at an alarming rate before COVID-19, but now the trend appears to be accelerating just as the disease arrives in rural America.

More than 100 prisoners at Monroe Correctional Complex's minimum-security unit set off fire extinguishers in protest after six fellow inmates were diagnosed with COVID-19 in recent days.

The new rules apply only to workers in critical infrastructure jobs, a broadly defined group that includes employees in fields from health care to financial services.

In a study of the early coronavirus epidemic in the U.S., a third of people who were hospitalized were African American. Top risk factors were high blood pressure and obesity.

Construction workers have been deemed essential in many places that are under shelter-in-place orders. But not all construction projects may be equally essential.

County executives across the United States are worried about budget problems as the coronavirus pandemic deepens. As more people request help, government leaders struggle with how to pay for it.

NPR politics, science and national correspondents relay the latest news on the response in the United States to the coronavirus epidemic.