This week’s Medical Minute discusses a simple and safe way investigators have discovered to dramatically reduce the severity of COVID-19 infection.

Dr Atul Gawande, the surgeon and bestselling health writer talks, to NPR about the problems he has inherited as the new head of USAID's global health office.

With a more contagious variant now dominant in the U.S., the country's genomic surveillance capacity is getting a major boost.

When will you be eligible for the coronavirus vaccine? On Georgia Today, Andy Miller of Georgia Health News explains why the state is so far behind on its vaccine rollout.

More than 1 million adult Georgians have had at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine made either by Pfizer or Moderna. But the vaccines haven’t yet been tested on kids. Now parents can decide whether to enroll their adolescent children in clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines. GPB’s Ellen Eldridge reports.

When Bibb County Schools went online at the start of the pandemic in March, the district quickly lost contact with about 14% of their student body, some 3,000 kids. To avoid that now, they need reliable internet.

In an interview with NPR, Powell says it may take years before the economy has fully recovered. He says practicing social distancing and wearing masks is essential for the economy to rebound.