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.
U.S. Hits 100,000 COVID-19 Hospitalizations; More Than 3,100 Daily Deaths Data from the COVID Tracking Project show 100,226 people were hospitalized Wednesday, while Johns Hopkins reports 3,157 deaths — a new one-day record. Jaclyn Diaz
More WA Covid-19 hospitalizations, more deaths, and plans for a vaccine rollout ‘As we speak, in Washington there are over 1,000 people in the hospital with Covid. That's double what it was about a month ago.’ Kim Malcolm
CDC Adviser On COVID-19 Vaccine Priority Groups And Why Some Aren't Eager To Be First Dr. Robert Atmar, a member of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, says he's hearing hesitancy among some front line medical workers about being first in line for a vaccine. Mary Louise Kelly
'We Don't Have To Live This Way': Doctors Call For Climate Action Heat waves, air pollution and extreme weather are making people sick and, increasingly, killing people. A key report by global physicians says fossil fuels are to blame. Rebecca Hersher
CDC Shortens Length Of Quarantine Aimed At Preventing Spread Of The Coronavirus The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed its recommendations. Now it says people without coronavirus symptoms need to quarantine for 10 days, or seven — if they then test negative. Rob Stein