Can Employers Require Workers To Get A COVID-19 Vaccine? NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Johnny Taylor Jr., CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management, about whether employers can require workers to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.
California Is 1st State To Hit 2 Million Cases, And Hospitals Are Out Of ICU Beds Coronavirus cases in the state have skyrocketed over the last two months, and the ICU capacity is now zero in Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley. Laurel Wamsley
The Worst Of COVID Should Be Over For One Hard-Hit Brazilian City. But It's Not The jungle metropolis of Manaus had a terrible pandemic spring. A study estimates 76% of residents were exposed to the coronavirus. Researchers thought there couldn't be another surge. And yet... Catherine Osborn
Correctional Facilities Are COVID-19 Hot Spots. Why Don't They Get Vaccine Priority? Prisons, jails and detention centers have much higher coronavirus case and fatality rates than the general public. But attitudes toward inmates mean bank tellers may get vaccinated before they do. Ari Shapiro
Putin Promotes Homegrown COVID-19 Vaccine, But Most Russians Are Skeptical The Russian leader has touted Sputnik V, as the vaccine is known, but more than half of Russians say they don't want to take it. Lucian Kim
Poll: More Than Half Of Russians Don't Want To Get Vaccinated Russian President Vladimir Putin is touting the effectiveness of his country's COVID-19 vaccine, but most ordinary Russians seem reluctant to take it. Lucian Kim
'Trusted Messengers, Trusted Messages': How To Overcome Vaccine Hesitancy As the first COVID-19 vaccines begin to be rolled out across the U.S., community leaders in diverse groups already are working hard to dispel misinformation and reach skeptics with truth. Fran Kritz
'We find our way.' How older adults are coping with pandemic isolation The pandemic has been hard on everyone, but even harder for older adults. Not only are they vulnerable to the deadly virus; current restrictions also put them at an increased risk of social isolation. Ruby de Luna
U.S. Government To Buy Additional 100 Million Doses Of Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine The federal government reaches an agreement with Pfizer to buy an additional 100 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. NPR explores what that means for the country's supply in the coming months. Sydney Lupkin
11 Original NPR Comics That Brought Joy, Hope And Help During The Pandemic In 2020, NPR created and published more than a dozen comics for the pandemic — everything from how to explain it to kids to how to help the older people in your life. Malaka Gharib