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On March 13, President Trump promised to mobilize private and public resources to respond to the coronavirus. NPR followed up on each promise and found little action had been taken.

An American nurse who worked during Africa's Ebola outbreak compares that experience to treating coronavirus patients in a U.S. ER. One difference: she had better protective gear in the Ebola clinic.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to NPR's Geoff Brumfiel and to Crystal Watson, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, about the proposal for a national contact tracing program.

Schools are restructuring learning for students and districts are taking many different approaches. That’s one ripple effect of the COVID-19 pandemic. And…

The company also plans to hire 75,000 additional workers. And it says it will devote some hours at Whole Foods to online orders only and make other changes to keep up with a crush of demand.

A Smithfield Foods plant in South Dakota that produces 4% to 5% of the nation's pork supply has become the latest meat processing facility to shut down as COVID-19 sickens plant workers.

The word "hope" was also projected onto the statue towering over Rio de Janeiro, along with the phrase for "Stay at Home" — the message nurses and doctors are telling people around the world.

Manufacturers, lawmakers and grocery store workers say the reusable bags could transmit the virus, but according to scientists there aren't enough studies to know whether that's true.

Some restaurants are adding toilet paper, fresh vegetables and other staples to their menus. They rely on different supply chains than grocery stores, so there's still plenty of yeast to be had.

Some cases of the novel coronavirus are asymptomatic, presymptomatic or mildly symptomatic. Scientists are trying to determine their role in transmission of the disease.