Fauci Warns Of 'Surge Upon A Surge' As COVID-19 Hospitalizations Hit Yet Another High More than 91,000 people were hospitalized with the coronavirus on Saturday — over 6,000 of them on ventilators. With the holiday season fast approaching, health experts fear the worst is yet to come. Matthew S. Schwartz
As Holiday Travel Surges, Airport Sanitation Workers Worry About Virus Exposure NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with Andre Cooper, a sanitation and security worker cleaning airplanes, about what it's been like to work through a busy holiday travel season during a pandemic.
The U.S. And Equitable Access To Menstruation Products NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Jennifer Weiss-Wolf of Period Equity about where the U.S. stands on providing free menstruation products nationally and how the pandemic has affected access to them.
Masked And Undeterred, Shoppers Line Up For Black Friday Sales Even as coronavirus cases surge in the United States, some shoppers can't seem to stay away from shops and malls on Black Friday. Alina Selyukh
More Than 100,000 People Died Of COVID-19 In Nursing Homes, Findings Show NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Priya Chidambaram of the Kaiser Family Foundation about their findings that more than 100,000 residents and staff of long-term care facilities have died of COVID-19.
A COVID-19 Vaccine For Children May Still Be Many Months Away The first COVID-19 vaccines to hit the market will not be approved for use in children. Researchers must figure out if the vaccines are safe and effective in kids. Andrea Hsu
A Garden Is The Frontline In The Fight Against Racial Inequality And Disease North Minneapolis's mostly minority community lost its only grocery store this summer. It's a neighborhood grappling with heart disease, obesity and COVID-19. A Garden may help. Yuki Noguchi
Why Asking People To Change Their Behavior During The Pandemic Is So Hard To control the virus, some officials are forgoing rules or mandates and instead are relying on individuals to do the right thing. So what motivates behavior change, and what falls short? Nina Feldman
Supreme Court Backs Religious Challenge To New York COVID-19 Restrictions The U.S. Supreme Court upheld challenges from New York churches and synagogues to state pandemic restrictions on religious services. Amy Coney Barrett voted with the court's new conservative majority.
Government Model Suggests U.S. COVID-19 Cases Could Be Approaching 100 Million Government scientists estimate that the true number of coronavirus infections is eight times the reported number of 12.5 million, meaning "most of the country remains at risk," the team reports. Jon Hamilton