Doctors Encouraged By Antibody Treatments For COVID-19 While logistical challenges have hampered use of antibody drugs to treat people with mild-to-moderate COVID-19, recent results show the medicines can be worthwhile. Richard Harris
How COVID-19 Attacks The Brain And May Cause Lasting Damage Severe cases of COVID-19 can injure the brain in ways that affect memory, thinking and mood for months after the infection is gone, new research hints. It may even raise the risk of Alzheimer's. Jon Hamilton
Doses Of Antibody Drugs Remain Unused As They Present Various Challenges Monoclonal antibody drugs for COVID-19 with mild to moderate symptoms are not widely used, in part because doctors aren't sure they work. New data could provide more confidence in these drugs. Richard Harris
Is There A Way To Speed Up COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution? NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, about how to address nationwide delays in distributing COVID-19 vaccines.
COVID-19 Vaccine May Not Get To Long-Term Care Facilities Quickly Enough Coronavirus vaccines are reaching more long-term facilities, but many worry they won't come soon enough to stave off more deaths. Will Stone
Is the pandemic causing a surge in female genital mutilation? Kenya's president pledged to stamp out the practice by 2022. But since the pandemic began, activists say more girls are being cut — and married off afterward. Maria Godoy
'Exercised' Explains Why It Can Be Hard To Commit To Working Out — And Why We Should Harvard University's Daniel Lieberman looks at exercise from an evolutionary point of view, concluding that we evolved to limit our physical activity where possible, saving it for survival activities. Barbara J. King
States Struggle To Administer Their Doses Of COVID-19 Vaccines As the nation falls far short of a goal to get 20 million vaccinated by the new year, we look at where bottlenecks are occurring in various parts of the country.
LA Paramedics Told Not To Transport Some Patients With Low Chance Of Survival Amid a surge in COVID-19 cases that have inundated ICUs, the Southern California county is also asking ambulance crews to conserve bottled oxygen. Jaclyn Diaz
FDA Warns Health Officials Not To Mess With COVID-19 Vaccine Doses Schedule Agency officials said reducing the number of doses creates a potential for harm in patients because "they may assume that they are fully protected when they are not" and may "take unnecessary risks." Vanessa Romo