Early data suggest the pandemic may be driving up overdoses. Author Barbara Andraka-Christou says the solution to the addiction crisis is right before us: Improve access to life-saving medication.
Superintendents across the country say they're eager to get kids back in schools — safely. In communities with coronavirus cases soaring, some leaders say remote learning is the only safe option.
Exhausted leaders emerged from a marathon five days of talks with a rescue package to help member states weather their worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, about how to implement public health interventions that could turn the tide on the coronavirus pandemic.
The country's citizenship minister and education minister separately announced their diagnoses on social media the same day that the country announced a grim new milestone in the pandemic.
How much could coronavirus infections be curbed through mandatory masking, better testing and tracing, and other measures short of a return to full lockdown? Here's what mathematical models tell us.
Vaccines being developed in China and Britain are showing promise according to the latest report from those labs. The vaccines stimulate an immune response and seem to have mild side effects.
Educators in Florida, with the backing of the state's largest teachers union, sued the governor and other state officials for trying to require schools to reopen in the middle of a COVID-19 surge.