As COVID-19 Cases Surge, Fauci Says 'We've Got To Do Much Better' NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Dr. Anthony Fauci, NIAID director, about the rising COVID-19 infection rate, updating mask guidance, potential for booster shots and breakthrough infections.
Time For Caution Amid COVID-19 Surge And Breakthrough Cases It's an unsettling moment in the pandemic as cases rise, Delta sweeps and more reports are made of breakthrough cases. Here are the latest recommendations to keep people and communities safe. Allison Aubrey
Tokyo Reports Its Highest COVID-19 Numbers Since January As First Olympic Games Start "There is an urgent need to prepare crisis management systems for hospital care," the the Tokyo Metropolitan Government says. Bill Chappell
State Attorneys General Reach A $26 Billion National Opioid Settlement Payouts will be spread over the next 18 years, with much of the funding going to help communities struggling with high rates of opioid addiction and overdose deaths. Brian Mann
Worried About Breakthrough COVID Cases? Here's What To Know Fully vaccinated Olympic athletes and members of Congress have tested positive for the virus. Should you be worried? How common are breakthrough infections, and are they rising? Rob Stein
Athletes At The Tokyo Olympics Are Being Given Condoms, And Warnings Not To Use Them Organizers of the Tokyo Olympics ordered 160,000 condoms to be handed out to athletes in the Olympic Village. Under COVID-19 protocols, athletes are technically banned from using them. Jaclyn Diaz
Health Care Workers Are Again Coping With Too Many COVID-19 Deaths NPR's Noel King checks in with Dr. Jamil Madi, a critical care specialist at a hospital in Harlingen, Texas, about current levels of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and vaccinations.
A Fully Vaccinated White House Employee Tests Positive For COVID-19 Known as a breakthrough case, it underscores another messaging challenge for the Biden administration. Only after news of this case leaked out in the media, did the White House acknowledge it. Tamara Keith
Study Suggests That India's Pandemic Death Toll Is Higher Than Official Data NPR's Noel King talks to Arvind Subramanian of Brown University's Watson Center and former chief economic adviser to the government of India, about the likely undercount of COVID-19 deaths in India.
India's Pandemic Death Toll Estimated At About 4 Million: 10 Times The Official Count That's the number of "excess deaths" from January 2020 to June 2021, reflecting the true toll of COVID-19, say researchers in a new study. What the big disparity? Sushmita Pathak