'This Is History': NBA To Hold First Games In 'Bubble' Amid Pandemic Only 22 of the league's 30 teams will play in the truncated season. The NBA is experimenting with keeping players in a so-called "bubble" to try to keep the coronavirus from seeping into its ranks. Alana Wise
NBA Players Share What It's Like To Live In A 'Bubble' The NBA season resumes Thursday night, with teams living and playing at Disney World. The temporary basketball campus is called a "bubble," and NBA players have documented their lives there.
Irregularities in COVID Reporting Contract Award Process Raises New Questions The administration awarded a contract for a COVID-19 database to TeleTracking Technologies using a process reserved for innovative research. Its CEO had links to the New York real estate world. Dina Temple-Raston
More Than 150,000 People Have Died From Coronavirus In The U.S. The U.S. death toll is the worst in the world, by a large measure. Despite having less than 5% of the global population, nearly a quarter of all pandemic deaths have been reported in the U.S. Alana Wise
Why The Novel Coronavirus Has The Power To Launch A Pandemic Many viruses have "pandemic potential" but never reach the tipping point. So what made this one capable of wreaking global havoc? Pien Huang
As COVID-19 Cases Surge, Health Professionals Urge A Shutdown Do-Over NPR's David Greene talks to Dr. Krutika Kuppalli about the campaign led by doctors, health researchers and others to shut down parts of the country again, in order to get the pandemic under control.
Harvested Antibodies Now Being Tested As A Prevention Tool Against COVID-19 Scientists are now checking to see if purified blood serum from people who have recovered from COVID-19 might be more than a useful treatment. Perhaps it's a way to prevent disease in someone else. Richard Harris
Snohomish County not flattening the curve. 'The trend is up, up, up' ‘It's kind of a game of Russian Roulette of who will get deathly ill when they contract Covid-19.’ Kim Malcolm
Why We Grow Numb To Staggering Statistics — And What We Can Do About It The growing coronavirus death toll doesn't provoke the same type of emotional response that a plane crash might. It's a coping mechanism and how our neurons are wired, says psychologist Elke Weber. Ailsa Chang
Atlanta Mayor Defends Legal Face-Off With Georgia's Governor Over Masks Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms' order requiring face masks in her city has prompted Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp to sue. Bottoms discusses the legal battle and plans for schools in the fall. James Doubek