Coal Mine Conditions Make It Hard For Miners To Socially Distance
Coal miners are among other essential workers who are on the job during the COVID-19 pandemic. Advocates say more needs to be done to protect the miners.
Health & Safety
COVID-19 Researchers Look Into Llama's Special Antibodies
The global search for a treatment targeting the coronavirus has led to an unlikely potential savior: a cocoa-colored llama named Winter, whose blood could hold a weapon to blunt the virus.
Feud Over WHO Funding Continues As Group's Annual Meeting Continues
The World Health Organization's governing body meets virtually for a second day. The first day was marked by technical glitches, calls for cooperation and raised tensions between the U.S and China.
Pa. Nursing Home Residents Among Those To Be Tested For COVID-19
NPR's Noel King talks to Pennsylvania's health secretary Dr. Rachel Levine about statewide testing in long-term care facilities and nursing homes in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus.
Despite FDA Caution, Trump Says He Is Taking Hydroxychloroquine As A Preventive
The impact of the drug on the virus is being studied, but there is not yet evidence from medical trials — and there have been some warnings about side effects from taking the medicine.
Pompeo Blasts WHO And China For Excluding Taiwan From This Week's Health Assembly
By not inviting Taiwan to its health assembly, the World Health Organization kept out "scientific expertise on pandemic disease" and "damaged the WHO's credibility," the secretary of state said.
Germany, France Propose $543 Billion EU Coronavirus Recovery Fund
The plan is to raise the money through EU-backed bonds and be help the hardest-hit industries and regions. The issue of burden sharing remains controversial among several of the bloc's member states.
Doctors In Training Learn Hard Lessons During The Pandemic
There are some 130,000 medical residents in the U.S., and many are pulling long shifts in emergency departments and ICUs treating patients infected with the coronavirus.
Texas Faces A Spike In The Coronavirus Cases At Meatpacking Plants
Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday has unveiled more of his plans for reopening Texas. Meanwhile, the state is facing a spike in confirmed COVID-19 cases — most of them at meatpacking plants in Amarillo.
A Woman With Dyschronometria Shares Her Experience Of Losing Track Of Time
Some people in quarantine are experiencing time as moving faster or slower than normal. But Jeannie Campbell who has dyschronometria has been losing track of time for years.