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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with journalist Robert Baird about why scaling up coronavirus testing in the U.S. has been so slow.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Howard University President Dr. Wayne Frederick about how the coronavirus pandemic has affected students at his institution.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Adrian Price, Ford's director of manufacturing, about the company's efforts to repurpose equipment used to make cars to now make ventilators and other medical supplies.

As a young man, Teitelbaum looked to avant-garde artists like John Cage for inspiration. He'd later follow those footsteps towards figuring out how to make music from — what else? — brain waves.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden proposes letting 60-year-olds enroll in Medicare. He'd pay for the expansion out of general tax revenue, he says, not the Medicare fund.

Some states in the rural West are still reporting very low numbers of COVID-19 cases. But there are pockets with high infection rates: wealthy resort towns with a lot of visitor traffic.

One big commercial testing lab revealed a backlog of at least 115,000 tests, illustrating the scope of the coronavirus testing problems.

The government ordered lenders to let homeowners skip payments if they lost income because of the coronavirus. But landlords can require renters to pay even if they've lost their jobs. And many are.

The positive exposure for artists from their songs appearing in film, television and advertisements has turned the job of music supervision into a power player in the music business.

Bigger artists may count on fan support and labels to carry them through canceled tours, but working musicians — from orchestra members and wedding singers to indie rappers — are looking elsewhere.