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Dr. Stephaun Wallace, who leads the global external relations strategies for the COVID-19 Prevention Network at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, receives his second injection from Dr. Tia Babu during the Novavax vaccine phase 3 clinical trial in February 2021.

Advisers to the FDA back Novavax COVID vaccine

Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration overwhelmingly voted to recommend that it authorize Novavax's two-dose vaccine against COVID-19.

A positive result on a home COVID test. If you catch it once, can you catch it again? Turns out the answer is: Yes.

Coronavirus FAQ: I got COVID. Then I got it again. What's the deal with reinfection?

People who catch COVID may feel as if they won't get it again, at least not for a long time. Their immune system should be primed to fight it off in the future. Right? Well, let's see.

UN report says Iran has enough uranium to produce nuclear weapons

Foreign policy journalist Laura Rozen gives NPR's Scott Simon her assessment of the state of negotiations over Iran's nuclear program.

Families hug outside the Willie de Leon Civic Center where grief counseling will be offered in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24.

Opinion: The endurance of parents

NPR's Scott Simon remarks on how parents have felt hard times compounding for the last several years between pandemic disruptions and inflation, and now fears over school shootings.

Syringes filled with the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine were prepared for use at a vaccination center in Berlin, Germany, in February. Soon the vaccine could become available in the U.S.

Novavax's COVID vaccine nears the finish line

The Novavax vaccine appears to be about 90% effective at preventing mild, moderate and severe COVID-19, Food and Drug Administration scientists say in an analysis of the company's data.

Surya Kapu, 13, from South Jordan, Utah, competes during the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Wednesday in Oxon Hill, Md.

He was knocked out of the National Spelling Bee, but appeal gives him another chance

Surya Kapu, 13, misspelled "leucovorin" — a medicine used to counteract the side effects of a cancer drug. His family said that Scripps omitted details when he asked a question about the word's roots.

File photo of Assemblyman Tom Lackey, R-Palmdale, speaking at a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022.

California child abuse database lacks half of county reports

Auditors said that omission could result in child abusers being allowed to care for children.

Smokes and flames billow from burning narcotic drugs during a destruction ceremony of seized narcotic drugs in outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar on June 26, 2018.

1 billion pills: The number of seized drugs reaches ominous record in Asia

A U.N. official calls for new policies across East Asia to halt the soaring production of methamphetamines.

Students of the Pyongyang Jang Chol Gu University of Commerce in North Korea undergo temperature checks before entering the campus. The country said there were no cases — until May 12.

North Korea says its COVID outbreak is now under control. But is it?

After saying there were no cases, officials on May 12 announced an outbreak. But without an adequate supply of tests, some say North Korea is "flying blind." And it still doesn't have vaccines.

People walk past a Covid testing site on May 17. in New York City. New York's health commissioner, Dr. Ashwin Vasan, has moved from a "medium" COVID-19 alert level to a "high" alert level in all the five boroughs following a surge in cases.

The real COVID surge is (much) bigger than it looks. But don't panic

Thanks to at-home testing, official reports are missing a lot of the COVID cases circulating now. Is the U.S. in the midst of an invisible surge? Here's how to assess the situation where you live.

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