Vaccine Cards And Second-Dose Reminders Are Part Of Warp Speed's Immunization Plan The U.S. government says it will issue a vaccine card and use other tools to help millions of Americans follow through with their immunizations against COVID-19. Bill Chappell
NIH Head Suggests Churches Shouldn't Return To In-Person Worship Yet Francis Collins, head of the National Institutes of Health, told the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission that churches shouldn't return to in-person worship yet. Tom Gjelten
Latest Season Of 'Grey's Anatomy' Shows Americans What It's Like To Fight Pandemic NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Grey's Anatomy showrunner Krista Vernoff and medical consultant Naser Alazari about how TV is showing American viewers what fighting a pandemic truly looks like.
Actors File Age Discrimination Suit Over SAG-AFTRA Health Plan Cuts The actors and their supporters say that the union is dropping nearly 12,000 people — many over the age of 65 — from its health care plan at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. Anastasia Tsioulcas
Facebook Bans Debunked Claims About COVID-19 Vaccines The new ban is an expansion of the social network's rules against misinformation that could lead to imminent physical harm. It comes as governments prepare to roll out the first vaccinations. Shannon Bond
Smartphone Data: Many Americans Ignored Thanksgiving Travel Warnings From The CDC NPR analyzed data by SafeGraph to determine the percentage of people who stayed at their "home" location for Thanksgiving as well as the percentage who traveled 31 miles or more. Ruth Talbot
A Biden Promise About Overseas Abortion Funding Could Prove Difficult To Implement It's part of an ongoing back-and-forth: Republican presidents ban U.S. funds for foreign aid groups that 'promote' abortion, Democratic presidents revoke the ban. This time things could be different. Nurith Aizenman
Sorting Out Who Would Get The 1st Doses Of A COVID-19 Vaccine As the U.S. moves closer to getting a COVID-19 vaccine approved, which groups will receive it first? NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Lynn Bahta, a member of the CDC's vaccine advisory panel.
Quarantined Health Workers Compound Staffing Shortages At California Hospitals With a spike in COVID-19 infections, hospitals in California's San Joaquin Valley are suffering from a staffing shortage. It's made worse because hundreds of health care workers are quarantined. Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Maryland Teen Designs App To Help Families Dealing With Type 1 Diabetes How would you respond to a life-altering diagnosis? Drew Mendelow, 13, of Gaithersburg, Md., found out. He in turn designed a free app called T1D1, designed to help patients with Type 1 diabetes.