Health & Safety

What Election Officials Are Doing To Prevent Coronavirus Transmission While Voting

5:20pm March 10, 2020

by Pam Fessler

Election officials around the country are taking steps they hope will assure voters that they are safe at polling places, despite concerns about the spread of coronavirus.

Taylor Miller prepares to cast his ballot during early voting on Monday in Renton, Wash. King County has had the highest number of deaths in the U.S. linked to the coronavirus outbreak.

Biden And Sanders Cancel Election Night Events Due To Coronavirus Concerns

5:08pm March 10, 2020

As the number of confirmed coronavirus cases continues to climb, election officials and candidates are weighing how to make sure the political process doesn't become the next casualty of the virus.

New York State Deploys National Guard To Manage Coronavirus In NYC Suburb

4:42pm March 10, 2020

by Brian Mann

New York state is mobilizing the National Guard to help contain coronavirus in New Rochelle, N.Y. It will help enforce new restrictions on public gatherings and distribute food starting Thursday.

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Contact tracing is painstaking work which can be even more complicated in large cities like New York City.

Health & Safety

How The Painstaking Work Of Contact Tracing Can Slow The Spread Of An Outbreak

4:29pm March 10, 2020

by Keren Landman

It involves making a very long list and a LOT of phone calls. Disease detection is drudgery but it's vital to public health.

Sacramento County includes the University of California, Davis Medical Center, which housed the first U.S. case of a patient getting the new coronavirus through community spread.

Coronavirus: Sacramento County Gives Up On Automatic 14-Day Quarantines

3:03pm March 10, 2020

by Bill Chappell

The California county includes the hospital that treated the first known U.S. case of community spread of COVID-19, which went undiagnosed for days because of problems with the U.S. testing program.

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Gov. Cooper Declares State Of Emergency To Combat Coronavirus

1:59pm March 10, 2020

by Associated Press

Medical staff in protective gear move a patient with COVID-19 from an ambulance to a hospital in Seoul.

Health & Safety

How A South Korean City Is Changing Tactics To Tamp Down Its COVID-19 Surge

1:06pm March 10, 2020

by Anthony Kuhn

Daegu, the center of South Korea's coronavirus outbreak, tries to figure out an effective way to tackle disease.

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Fauci Helps To Spread The Word Of U.S. Response To Coronavirus

12:22pm March 10, 2020

NPR's Noel King talks to Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, about efforts to stop the spread of the coronavirus in the United States.

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The Coronavirus' Impact On Financial Markets And The Economy

12:19pm March 10, 2020

by Scott Horsley

The outbreak has caused turmoil in the stock market. Monday was Wall Street's worst day in more than a decade. After the markets closed, President Trump said he's going to ask Congress for help.

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A shopper passes empty shelves usually stocked with toilet paper in a supermarket

Is The Economy Coming Down With Something?

12:06pm March 10, 2020

Planet Money's roundup of a crazy few days in economic news.