Coronavirus FAQ: Should I Wash My Kid's Clothes Every Day After School? Plus: Can the virus make me sick many years later, like the chickenpox virus does? Pranav Baskar
Houston Doctor Expects Another Coronavirus Surge After Christmas NPR's Steve Inskeep checks back in with Dr. Joseph Varon of Houston Memorial Medical Center as the COVID-19 vaccine is being distributed, and deaths have passed 300,000.
FDA OKs 1st Home COVID-19 Test That Doesn't Require A Prescription The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday authorized the test. It will cost about $30 and be available by January, according the Australian company that makes it, Ellume. Rob Stein
Excitement and hope: First Seattle health care workers vaccinated against Covid-19 Tears, relief, gratitude, and an end to a long, hard road in sight. Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Health Workers 'Feeling Good As Hell' As Hospitals Begin COVID Vaccine Injections As the first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine made their way across the country on Monday, hospital employees celebrated the long-awaited medicine. Vanessa Romo
U.N. Report: In The Age Of Humans, 'The Dominant Risk To Our Survival Is Ourselves' On the United Nations' new Planetary Pressures-Adjusted Human Development Index, the United States drops 45 places from its overall ranking, a reflection of the country's outsize environmental impact. Laurel Wamsley
Poll: Americans Are Growing Less Reluctant To Take COVID-19 Vaccine In a survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation, 71% of respondents said they would definitely or probably get inoculated — a significant leap over the 63% who said so in an August/September poll. Colin Dwyer
Unboxing the coronavirus vaccine in Seattle: A glimmer of hope The box looked like no big deal. White, cardboard, and a pink sticker that read, “priority boarding.” Isolde Raftery
FDA Authorizes 1st Home Coronavirus Test That Doesn't Require A Prescription The new tests produce results completely at home within 15 minutes. Experts say they could be a 'game-changer' in helping people find out quickly if they need to isolate. Rob Stein
Fauci Predicts U.S. Could See Signs Of Herd Immunity By Late March Or Early April Dr. Fauci said once the vaccine becomes widely available, if by "April, May, June, July, we get as many people vaccinated as possible, we could really turn this thing around" by the end of 2021. Brakkton Booker