Health & Safety

Advocates To Distribute Masks And Urge More Support For Latino Communities

4:47pm June 11, 2020

A Latino advocacy group will distribute masks and hold voter registration events this weekend. This comes as the Hispanic community makes up a disproportionate number of COVID-19 cases.

Queue Listen Now

Health & Safety

How The Widespread Mask Use Could Slow The Coronavirus Pandemic

4:45pm June 11, 2020

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Dr. Atul Gawande, a staff writer for the New Yorker, about the efficacy of different face masks and why masks remain essential in dealing with the coronavirus.

Queue Listen Now

Nothing Like SARS: Researchers Warn The Coronavirus Will Not Fade Away Anytime Soon

4:13pm June 11, 2020

by Pien Huang

There was early hope that the coronavirus could be contained and eliminated. But researchers now believe the virus is likely to be a continuing threat until a vaccine is developed.

Queue Listen Now

Health & Safety

Will Nationwide Protests Drive Up The Coronavirus Cases?

4:04pm June 11, 2020

by Nurith Aizenman

The nationwide demonstrations have caused concerns about a possible surge in the coronavirus cases. It would depend on how well everyone sticks to practices that keep the virus in check.

Health & Safety

Public Health Officials Encounter Harassment And Threats For Using Contact Tracing

4:04pm June 11, 2020

by Will Stone

Public health officials have been harassed and threatened for using contact tracing and other strategies to contain the spread of the coronavirus. They say the threats are based on misinformed fears.

Doctors should start screening all women and girls for anxiety, according a prominent women's health group.

Health & Safety

All Women Should Be Screened For Anxiety Disorders, Health Group Says

2:52pm June 11, 2020

by Sarah McCammon

Women suffer from anxiety at nearly twice the rate of men, and a coalition of women's health groups says all teenage girls and women should be screened.

Workers line up to enter a Tyson Foods pork processing plant last month in Logansport, Ind. Some of the worst workplace coronavirus outbreaks have been in the meatpacking industry. Major meatpackers JBS USA, Smithfield Foods and Tyson have said worker saf

Thousands Of Workers Say Their Jobs Are Unsafe As Economy Reopens

12:33pm June 11, 2020

by Chris Arnold

In places ranging from chicken processing plants to hair salons, workers say employers aren't doing enough to protect them from getting sick. Advocates blame a lack of mandatory federal safety rules.

Queue Listen Now

News Brief: Biden And Trump Campaign, Amazon Face Recognition, U.S. Student In Iran

12:06pm June 11, 2020

Biden and Trump are back on the campaign trail. Amazon will no longer let police use its facial recognition software. And, U.S. Student Xiyue Wang discusses his time in prison in Iran.

Queue Listen Now

A researcher at the German Center for Immunity Therapy holds a bag containing blood plasma from a recovered COVID-19 patient at the University Hospital Erlangen on April 27, 2020 in Erlangen, Germany. This plasma could be used to treat people with COVID-1

Five Coronavirus Treatments In Development

12:05pm June 11, 2020

by Joe Palca

While only remdesivir has been scientifically shown to help treat COVID-19, it is not a particularly effective drug. More drugs like it and fundamentally different ones are in the pipeline.

Jacob Ezzo, a chorus teacher from South Orange Middle School in New Jersey, has helped spearhead an effort to make face shields for those working on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.

Music Teacher's 'Weekend' Project Turns Into Almost 40,000 Face Shields

7:23am June 11, 2020

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

Working alongside dozens of other volunteers, middle school chorus teacher Jacob Ezzo has made and sent PPE to health care workers and first responders from New Jersey to the Navajo Nation.

Queue Listen Now