COVID Is Crushing Nepal, From Remote Villages To Kathmandu To Mt. Everest Health workers must overcome great challenges to battle one of the world's most severe COVID-19 outbreaks, which stretch from villages without hospitals to the top of the world's highest mountain. Lauren Frayer
Hiring Picked Up Last Month, A Relief For An Economy Desperate For Workers U.S. employers added 559,000 jobs last month, as the unemployment rate fell to 5.8% from 6.1% in April. Employers say they could use even more workers as demand surges and pandemic fears recede. Scott Horsley
Want To Mix 2 Different COVID-19 Vaccines? Canada Is Fine With That As of late May, 50.6% of Canada's population had received at least one vaccination shot — but only 4.6% of the population was fully vaccinated. Bill Chappell
Anne Schuchat Discusses Her Time As The CDC's Principal Deputy Director Steve Inskeep talks with the CDC's outgoing Principal Deputy Director Anne Schuchat about her tenure, the pandemic and lessons learned.
FDA Mulls Over Approval Of Controversial Alzheimer's Drug The FDA is poised to decide whether to approve aducanumab, a drug to treat Alzheimer's. It's proved highly effective at removing the sticky amyloid plaques associated with the disease from the brain. Jon Hamilton
U.S. Sending 1 Million Coronavirus Vaccines To Mexico Border Cities, Resort Spots Mexico has reported more than 2.4 million confirmed coronavirus cases with more than 228,000 deaths, as of Thursday. Targeting the shots toward tourist areas is a bid to boost the country's economy. Jaclyn Diaz
A Sunday service, a funeral, and a conference: How some churches spread Covid in the Seattle area Gail Fleming got Covid last summer from a church conference. Even so, Fleming is glad she went, she said, and that she would do it again. That’s how much the experience was worth it. Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Coronavirus is more contagious now than last year as variants spread in King County As Seattleites emerge from quarantine to celebrate warm weather and vaccination, ominous news comes from public health experts. Isolde Raftery
International Committee Of The Red Cross Director On Hurdles To Aid Gaza And Israel NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Robert Mardini, the director-general of the International Committee of the Red Cross, about the situation in Gaza and Israel after the 11-day war in May.
5 Things We Learned From Anthony Fauci's Emails Thousands of pages of Dr. Fauci's emails have been released to reporters. Here's what they told us about his life and manner during the early months of the pandemic. Laurel Wamsley