How The Pandemic Recession Has Affected Housing Insecurity For American Indicators, NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Lee Camp, a St. Louis attorney who represents tenants, about how the pandemic recession has affected housing insecurity.
'I feel like there's hope down the line.' How being vaccinated changed this nurse's pandemic outlook Jamie Williams is a nurse in the greater Seattle area who has treated Covid patients since the beginning of the pandemic. She shared with KUOW how being vaccinated changed her outlook on life for our oral history series, "Voices of the Pandemic." Joshua McNichols
FDA Aims To Be 'Nimble' On COVID-19 Vaccine Changes For Variants The Food and Drug Administration is working on a playbook for how it could greenlight vaccine tweaks. Studies in hundreds of people, rather than tens of thousands, seem likely. Sydney Lupkin
Pregnant people weren’t included in the Covid vaccine studies. So how do they decide about the shot? Even as drug companies have started to include more women in research, they still excluded pregnant people, due to fears of what drugs might do to a developing fetus. That's forced pregnant people and their health care providers to make hard decisions about the risks and benefits of being vaccinated against Covid-19. Eilís O'Neill
Kent postal workers struggle with Covid-19 outbreak Postal workers in Kent are sounding the alarm after an outbreak of Covid-19 has left dozens sick at a facility in South King County. Esmy Jimenez
In Darwinian vaccine system, helpers step to the front Finding a vaccine appointment in Washington state is like survival of the fittest. Luckily, some community members are stepping forward to help. Deborah Wang
Two Masks Are Better Than One, CDC Says Centers for Disease Control and Prevention research finds wearing a surgical mask underneath a cloth mask — a concept known as double masking — can vastly improve the protection for the wearer.
What It's Like To Get Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 Vaccine Like many Russians, NPR's Moscow Correspondent Lucian Kim thought long and hard about whether he should get the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine. He finally decided to go ahead on Wednesday. Lucian Kim
Despite COVID-19 Pandemic, Super Bowl Winners Tampa Bay Buccaneers Hold Boat Parade The Tampa Bay Buccaneers celebrated their Super Bowl victory by holding a boat parade, despite the ongoing pandemic.
UW researchers look to the sewer to track Covid-19 Sewer surveillance is widely used around the world to monitor for diseases. At the University of Washington, researchers are taking a slightly different approach to detect Covid-19. Ruby de Luna