How the Makah Tribe beat the coronavirus odds and flattened the curve "Our goal is to not lose one single life, and so far, we've met that goal.” John Ryan
Pandemic Piles On Already Reeling Boeing, Leading To Nearly $12 Billion Loss In 2020 The airplane manufacturer was already struggling to fix design flaws in the grounded 737 Max when the pandemic all but froze demand for new aircraft. David Schaper
COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution: How High-Tech California Is Now Trying To Fix It The nation's most populous state says it's pivoting fast following a chaotic and inefficient county-based rollout of the vaccine. Surgeon General Dr. Nadine Burke Harris tells NPR about the do-over. Eric Westervelt
Why Scientists Are Very Worried About The Variant From Brazil They don't yet understand why the coronavirus variant called P.1 has spread so explosively there. Its set of mutations seem especially dangerous. And this week P.1 was confirmed in the U.S. Michaeleen Doucleff
Down But Not Out: Pandemic Likely Dealt Blow To Economy But There's Room For Hope The U.S. economy is likely to have slowed in the last three months of the year, ending 2020 smaller than it began. But for some companies, business is now back to pre-pandemic levels. Scott Horsley
Biden Administration Aims To Buy 200 Million More COVID-19 Vaccine Doses President Biden announced on Tuesday that his administration is trying to secure enough vaccine doses to ensure that 300 million Americans are vaccinated by the fall. Scott Detrow
Biden Announces Plans To Boost COVID-19 Vaccine Supply On Tuesday, President Biden announced a plan to boost the COVID-19 vaccine supply by 20% over the next three weeks and by hundreds of millions of doses by summer. Pien Huang
Some European Countries Move To Require Medical-Grade Masks In Public Germany, Austria and France have announced new measures that push fabric masks aside. European leaders have tied the policy changes to efforts to fend off fast-spreading coronavirus variants. Laurel Wamsley
CDC Makes Case For School Reopening Federal researchers say, with proper safety precautions, schools don't seem to fuel outbreaks, with some exceptions, such as indoor sports practices. Cory Turner
Biden Administration Criticized For Delay In Tackling Opioid Crisis More than 200 Americans are dying from drug overdoses daily. Now the Biden administration faces criticism for reportedly delaying a Trump administration policy widely seen as a way to help save lives. Brian Mann
