Omicron variant detected in three Washington state counties Three cases of the omicron variant have been detected in Washington state, according to the state Department of Health. That includes a case in King County.
All Things Considered Life Kit: How to be a kind neighbor NPR's Life Kit has tips and trick for how to be a good neighbor.
KUOW Newsroom The sidewalks are tidy outside this tiny house village in Seattle, because the residents keep it so To help keep up with the housing crisis in Seattle, tiny house villages are expanding for people experiencing homelessness. This fall one village added more tiny houses and xpanded and two more opened up to people seeking temporary housing.
KUOW Newsroom A device to 'cleanse' the brain and enhance sleep: UW researchers have started human trials Feeling drowsy? Maybe you just need to sleep more ... but maybe science can help. UW researchers are trying to enhance what the brain does when it sleeps.
All Things Considered South Africa is seeing a 4th surge of COVID-19 that's being driven by omicron South Africa's health ministry says the rate of infection is the highest since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
All Things Considered Sociologist says women are more likely to choose abortion over adoption NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Gretchen Sisson, a sociologist at UCSF, who has studied whether the option to put a child up for adoption alleviates the need for a woman to get an abortion.
All Things Considered HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra on the administration's response to the Omicron variant NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra on the Biden administration's ongoing response to the Omicron variant.
Coronavirus FAQ: Help me with omicron vocab. What's immune evasion? Epistasis? The emergence of this new variant of concern has brought a new vocabulary into daily news reports. We asked experts to help define the terms you're being bombarded with.
Thriving Black-owned businesses "Righting the wrongs of the past" in rural Mississippi In one of the poorest rural regions of the country's poorest state, a Black entreprenuer is helping Black owned businesses open and thrive even during the pandemic.
The Philippines vaccinated 7.6 million people in 3 days. Duterte demands even more Hit hard by the pandemic, the Philippines has vaccination rates far lower than neighbors like Vietnam and Cambodia. Here's how the country is trying to up its numbers.
