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An NPR science correspondent answers listener questions about the search for a vaccine to fight the coronavirus.

NPR's Scott Simon and Tom Goldman discuss robot umpires, purchasing private islands and other desperate measures considered in major sports during the pandemic.

Former Vice President Joe Biden won the primaries, but the question remains: Will he win over the progressives in his party who were backing other candidates?

For National Poetry Month, NPR's Life Kit team offers some tips to help you better appreciate the art form — and encourages listeners to write their own haikus.

An American nurse who worked during Africa's Ebola outbreak compares that experience to treating coronavirus patients in a U.S. ER. One difference: she had better protective gear in the Ebola clinic.

Obesity, hypertension and diabetes are linked to more serious cases of COVID-19. Discriminatory policies have meant that African-Americans and Latinos suffer from those conditions at higher rates.

In the rural Northwest, far-right elected officials, and the militias they're aligned with, are calling for defiance of statewide stay-at-home orders, including one issued by Idaho's GOP governor.

Soraya Nadia McDonald, culture critic for ESPN's The Undefeated, speaks with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about how health care received by African Americans during the 1918 flu epidemic foreshadows 2020.

As coronavirus-related restrictions take hold, the number of runners hitting roads and trails outside is surging. Here are some ideas for how to minimize your risks as you log your miles.

The coronavirus is pushing people to make a lot of tough choices. Dr. Teena Chopra, an infectious disease expert, weighs in with a doctor's perspective on those choices.