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Patrons dining outside at Common Theory in the Kearny Mesa neighborhood of San Diego, Calif. August 5, 2020.

Reversal Of California Outdoor Dining Ban Points To Public Health Confusion

Who knows whether banning outdoor dining was a good idea. Now that it’s back, not even the experts can be sure it’s safe.

Sick patients were isolated in converted warehouses during the 1918-19 global influenza pandemic, which killed an estimated 50 million worldwide.

The U.S. 'Battles' Coronavirus, But Is It Fair To Compare Pandemic To A War?

COVID-19 has now killed more Americans than WWII. That fact helps some people put the viral death toll in perspective, while others find it offensive. Historically, is it even a valid comparison?

<em>A Young Man Resting on an Exercise Bike, Amityville, N.Y.,</em> 1988, courtesy the artist and Sean Kelly Gallery, Stephen Daiter Gallery, and RenaBransten Gallery.

'An American Project': For Decades, Dawoud Bey Has Chronicled Black Life

Bey has spent more than 40 years documenting Black Americans, from Harlem to Louisiana. The first museum retrospective of his work is now touring the country.

Investigator Jack Palladino Dies From Attempted Mugging Injuries

Palladino was hurt when two men tried to steal his camera outside his San Francisco home, police say.

With the sun setting off the coast of northern Honduras, Ella Guity watches her daughters, Jirian and Eleny, swim in the warm Caribbean waters of the village of Rio Esteban, home to a group with African and indigenous roots known as the Garifuna. Ella had left years earlier for life in the big city, but the pandemic led her back home.

PHOTOS: The Pandemic Sends A Single Mom In The Big City To A Simpler, Happier Life

Ella Guity lived in the capital of Honduras with her daughters and mother. COVID-19 was surging. She sent them all to the fishing village where she grew up. Could she — should she — go too?

PHOTOS: The Pandemic Sends A Single Mom In The Big City To A Simpler, Happier Life

Ella Guity lived in the capital of Honduras with her daughters and mother. COVID-19 was surging. She sent them all to the fishing village where she grew up. Could she — should she — go too?

Andrei Doroshin, CEO of Philly Fighting COVID, speaks to reporters before the start of a COVID-19 vaccine clinic at the Pennsylvania Convention Center on January 8, 2021.

In Philadelphia, A Scandal Erupts Over Vaccination Startup Led By 22-Year-Old

City officials gave coronavirus vaccines to Philly Fighting Covid, whose brash CEO had no health care experience. After a WHYY investigation, the city cut ties with the group over alleged misconduct.

The Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, pictured in December, is 66% effective at preventing moderate and severe disease. But Dr. Paul Stoffels of Johnson & Johnson says what matters more is preventing hospitalizations and deaths, which it did completely.

Johnson & Johnson Executive Says Vaccine Works Where It Counts: Preventing Deaths

Dr. Paul Stoffels, the chief scientific officer at Johnson & Johnson, tells NPR the company's vaccine is very effective where it matters most: preventing hospitalizations and deaths.

The Khaliq Dina Hall and Library building in Karachi, Pakistan, has been converted into a COVID-19 vaccination center.

Pakistan's Vaccine Worries: Rich People And Conspiracy Theorists

The fifth most populous country has put strategies in place to address anti-vaccine sentiment and prevent elites from using their influence to obtain government vaccines.

A member of FDNY EMS gives a thumbs up while receiving Moderna's coronavirus vaccine in late December. By mid-January, New York City Medical Reserve Corps volunteers also were mobilized to help with the vaccine effort.

Medical Reserve Corps Volunteers Deployed To Help With Vaccination

Cadres of volunteers, mostly medical professionals, are part of a little-known federal emergency program launched in the aftermath of 9/11. Increasingly, states are deploying them against COVID-19.

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