NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with medical anthropologist Paul Farmer about his new book, Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds. It explores how the Ebola virus spread and the failure to contain it.
With temperatures dropping and coronavirus cases surging across the country, Harvard epidemiologist Julia Marcus tells NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro low-risk ways to gather this winter.
People may not be able to travel during the pandemic because of concerns over contracting the virus or because they can't afford it, but there are ways to escape virtually.
Michel Martin speaks with NPR's Andrea Hsu, economist Kathryn Anne Edwards and new stay-at-home mom Farida Mercedes about how the pandemic is disproportionately impacting women in the workforce.
Young adults are preparing to travel home for Thanksgiving, but the coronavirus is making things complicated. Epidemiologists say there are things families can to do reduce the risk of infection.
Faced with overloaded hospitals, doctors in South Dakota and North Dakota struggle to deal with uncontained community spread of COVID-19 and with medical staffing issues in their states.