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To safely reopen without risking new COVID-19 outbreaks, states need staff to do the crucial work of contact tracing. Public health agencies report they have aggressive plans to grow their workforce.

The spread of coronavirus behind bars is likely much more rampant than what's known right now. In prisons, jails and immigration detention centers, limited testing already shows widespread infection.

Japan currently conducts about 9,000 tests per day, and the move for dentists to administer them is aimed at relieving the burden on doctors and boosting capacity.

Vice President Mike Pence has been at the center of the coronavirus response — a crisis that has elevated his profile and conventional style, and may well define his future political ambitions.

NPR's History Podcast Throughline looks at the outsized role of the mosquito on the outcome of the American Revolution.

A video for "One Sea" was posted by the Chinese Embassy in Manila in an effort to foster solidarity in the fight against COVID-19. But many Filipinos saw it as Beijing pressing territorial claims.

This year was supposed to be Airbnb's big year. The company planned to go public, but COVID-19 has all but destroyed their business model. Airbnb's CEO explains how they hope to survive the pandemic.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks with Stephen Hahn, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, about how his agency is ensuring that the country has enough high-quality coronavirus tests.

Neftali Dubon, a truck driver at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, says he needs at least five or six runs a day to make a living. By mid-March he was doing just one or two.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Democratic Rep. Adam Smith, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, about supply chain issues hindering the military from increasing coronavirus testing capacity.