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Lemon Drizzle Cakes And Radio Show: How 1 Irish County Helps Elderly During Pandemic

The Irish government advised the elderly to cocoon in their homes during the pandemic. To help them follow orders, neighbors in one Irish county responded with lemon drizzle cakes and community radio.

Biden Becomes President A Year After 1st Confirmed U.S. COVID-19 Case

Since the first case, 400,000 people in the U.S. have died. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Dr. Celine Gounder, a member of Biden's COVID-19 task force, about the administration's pandemic priorities.

The lungs of a young woman in her 20s became so damaged by COVID-19 that she could not survive without her blood being oxygenated outside her body on an ECMO machine. She received a double-lung transplant on June 5. In this photo taken before the transplant, the patient is being monitored by the ECMO team at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago.

1st-Known U.S. Lung Transplant For COVID-19 Patient Performed In Chicago

A young woman in her 20s was healthy before the coronavirus struck her. After two months on a ventilator and ECMO device, her transplanted lungs are now working.