NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with Dr. David Marcozzi, Chief Medical Officer at the University of Maryland Medical Center, about hospital capacity amid the current COVID-19 surge.
The U.S. will soon mark two years since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the country, and the number of new infections has never been higher. Meanwhile, travelers are facing canceled flights.
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David Gura speaks with Dr. Celine Gounder, an infectious disease specialist at NYU, about the latest on omicron, and about the CDC's relaxed guidelines for isolation and quarantine.
Scientists are trying to figure out why the omicron variant is spreading so much faster than delta did. Early research provides a few possible reasons.
David Gura speaks with Wall Street Journal reporter Douglas Belkin about whether schools across the country are planning to continue in-person or go remote at the end of their holiday breaks.
Children are being hospitalized for COVID-19 at record rates amid the current surge. Mary Louise Kelly puts questions from parents of kids under 5 to pediatric infectious disease doctor, Ibukun Kalu.
The variant caused fewer deaths and less severe infections than past versions of the virus in South Africa, but that could be different in other countries.