Advisers To CDC Discuss Potential Coronavirus Vaccines Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention met virtually Friday to review what's known about potential coronavirus vaccines. The main issue is who should get a vaccine first. Pien Huang
The Campaign To Wipe Out Polio Was Going Really Well ... Until It Wasn't It looked as if polio would be the second human disease to be eliminated by vaccine — after smallpox. But "2020 has been a terrible year," the head of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative says. Jason Beaubien
U.S. Hits New Coronavirus Record With More Than 88,500 New Cases In the past week, the U.S. has blown past record levels of infection that were seen in the summer, when new cases topped 77,000 in July. Bill Chappell
News Brief: Final Electoral Map, Hidden Coronavirus Data, Stock Market NPR's final electoral map still shows plenty of uncertainty. Federal agencies are not sharing key hospitalization data with the public. And, Wall Street weighs in on the election and the stock market.
Why Some Memories Seem Like Movies: 'Time Cells' Discovered In Human Brains Scientists have identified special cells in the human brain that organize movie-like memories, helping us to relive important experiences and events. Jon Hamilton
Remote Marshall Islands Record First Confirmed Coronavirus Cases Two people arriving from the U.S. tested positive at a U.S. military base, ending the nation's run as one of the few in the world with zero known coronavirus cases. Reese Oxner
U.S. Economy Grows At Record Pace But Still Has A Long Way To Go U.S. GDP grew at a record 33.1% annualized pace in the third quarter, erasing some but not all of the damage done by the coronavirus recession. Scott Horsley
Texas County Imposes Curfew To Stem Spike In Coronavirus Cases NPR's David Greene talks to Dr. Ogechika Alozie, chief medical officer of the Del Sol Medical Center in El Paso, Texas, about the surge. Alozie is also the co-chair of the El Paso COVID-19 task force.
European Countries Revive Restrictions To Battle COVID-19 Spike Germany and France have become the latest European countries to introduce limited public health lockdowns, in an effort to end sharp increases in coronavirus infections. Rob Schmitz
U.S. Hospitals Targeted In Rising Wave Of Ransomware Attacks, Federal Agencies Say An alert warns hospitals and health care providers that there is "credible information of an increased and imminent cybercrime threat." Vanessa Romo