Seattle Now: Should I go to the movies? Theatres are opening in the Seattle region for the first time since March, and restaurants and weddings will have looser restrictions. How should we gauge the risks of these new options? Clare McGrane
How Tobacco Plants May Be Key In Preventing COVID-19 Historically tobacco plants are responsible for their share of illness and death. But two companies are using the plants to produce proteins for a vaccine. One candidate vaccine is in clinical trials. Joe Palca
Americans Are Dying In The Pandemic At Rates Far Higher Than In Other Countries Per capita deaths in the U.S. from COVID-19 and other causes are 85% higher than in countries like Germany and Israel. "The United States really has done remarkably badly," a study author says. Jason Beaubien
Facebook Bans Ads Discouraging Vaccines, In Latest Misinformation Crackdown The move is a reversal of Facebook's longstanding reluctance to block problematic content. Critics say public health misinformation has flourished on the social network. Shannon Bond
Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Trial Paused Due To 'Unexplained Illness' In Participant The company said it had paused further dosing in all of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate clinical trials while it investigated the volunteer's illness. Laurel Wamsley
Anxiety, Depression Increased During Pandemic. Why Not Loneliness? When the pandemic hit, mental health professionals predicted lockdowns and social distancing would result in a wave of loneliness. But researchers who study loneliness say that hasn't happened. Joanne Silberner
More Companies Are Using Technology To Monitor For Coronavirus In The Workplace As businesses reopen, tech firms are offering monitoring systems to screen for the coronavirus. They range from apps that ask about symptoms to software that tracks employees' movements at work. Jason Beaubien
South King County sees rise in Covid-19 cases as flu season approaches ‘Covid-19 is concentrating in lower-income, lower-resource communities.’ Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Medical Residents Learn To Treat The Growing Health Hazards Of Climate Change From heat-related illness to mosquito-borne infections, physicians are seeing the effects of a warming planet in the exam room. There's a growing push to teach doctors-in-training how to respond. Martha Bebinger
News Brief: SCOTUS Hearing, COVID-19 And Campaigning, Military Advisor On Elections Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court confirmation hearing begins today. Trump continues campaigning after his coronavirus diagnosis. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, talks about the election.
