Can Frozen Food Spread The Coronavirus? At a news conference this week, the World Health Organization made a surprising statement: The coronavirus could possibly transmit on frozen packages of food. Michaeleen Doucleff
Coronavirus FAQs: If I Have No Post-Vaccine Pain, Is It Working? Plus: Goat Dilemma! Readers are asking about vaccine protocols, the safest way to take off a mask, whether it's risky to engage in therapeutic cuddling sessions with goats. Maria Godoy
A Look At The Inequities Around The COVID-19 Vaccine In South Africa South Africa is a case study of the inequities around the coronavirus vaccine. It has one of the world's worst outbreaks, fueled by a new variant. Yet officials are struggling to buy enough vaccines. Nurith Aizenman
What Mardi Gras Looks Like During The COVID-19 Pandemic The Mardi Gras season is usually a fun and festive affair. But this year, a year after the celebration led New Orleans to become one of the nation's first COVID-19 hot spots, it's different. Aubri Juhasz
Biden Administration Mandate Requires All Travelers To Wear Masks A federal mandate from the Biden administration requires all people traveling within the U.S. to mask up. The rule applies to those on and waiting to board a plane, train, subway car or bus.
Australian Open Bans Spectators As State Enters 5-Day Lockdown Officials in Victoria imposed a snap lockdown after several new cases of the highly contagious U.K. variant of the coronavirus were discovered. Jaclyn Diaz
Biden Announces Deal For 200 Million More COVID-19 Vaccines "We've now purchased enough vaccine supplies to vaccinate all Americans," Biden said on Thursday. "Now we're working to get those vaccines into the arms of millions of people." Vanessa Romo
How The Pandemic Recession Has Affected Housing Insecurity For American Indicators, NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Lee Camp, a St. Louis attorney who represents tenants, about how the pandemic recession has affected housing insecurity.
'I feel like there's hope down the line.' How being vaccinated changed this nurse's pandemic outlook Jamie Williams is a nurse in the greater Seattle area who has treated Covid patients since the beginning of the pandemic. She shared with KUOW how being vaccinated changed her outlook on life for our oral history series, "Voices of the Pandemic." Joshua McNichols
FDA Aims To Be 'Nimble' On COVID-19 Vaccine Changes For Variants The Food and Drug Administration is working on a playbook for how it could greenlight vaccine tweaks. Studies in hundreds of people, rather than tens of thousands, seem likely. Sydney Lupkin