"Glaring gaps" in access to COVID-19 vaccines are partially to blame for increasing infection rates in Peru, Argentina, Brazil and many other Latin American and Caribbean countries .
Guidance from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says employers can legally require workers to get a COVID-19 vaccine before returning to the office. But workers can claim exceptions.
The first post-pandemic cruise from a U.S. port will embark next month. Despite CDC measures, the go-ahead puts wind in the sails of cruise lines, which have high hopes for an in-demand industry.
As the country faces the world's worst coronavirus crisis, children want to know: Will I catch it? Will grandfather die? What's it like to be an orphan?
President Biden told U.S. intelligence agencies to investigate whether the coronavirus spread after a lab leak in China. Scientists welcome the request, but many still think it came from the wild.
With the focus shifting again to a Wuhan, China, lab, Dr. Céline Gounder, a COVID-19 adviser to the Biden transition team, says it's important to find the pandemic's origins to prevent the next one.
They're treating as many as 200 patients a day. Many have seen more suffering than they expected in an entire career. A psychiatrist warns this will be "a generation of doctors who are traumatized."
Both the Moderna and Pfizer brand mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 are reported to be safe for adolescents ages 12 and up. Emory University and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta are now testing efficacy of Moderna's vaccine in those aged 6 months to 11 years.
Some patterns are emerging in Georgia just a few weeks into COVID-19 vaccinations for children between 12 and 15, even though only a fraction of them have been vaccinated.
Though the odds are comparable, many parents worry more about the less familiar disease. New mask guidelines have heightened anxiety. Experts explain the actual versus perceived risks of severe COVID.
Several governors have recently banned mask requirements in schools. But a new CDC study shows COVID-19 spreads less in schools where teachers and staff wear masks.
An internal CDC report obtained by NPR shows the CDC's original coronavirus test kits didn't just have a fundamental design flaw, but instructions sent to labs to run the test were problematic, too.
The National Restaurant Association is recommending to its members that employees continue to wear masks until the government clarifies how the guidance applies to a requirement to keep workers safe.
