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NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Dr. Scott Gottlieb, who headed the FDA, and Andy Slavitt, who was the director of Medicare and Medicaid, about the spike in coronavirus cases across the country.

Concierge health care provider One Medical has been allowing ineligible people to receive COVID-19 vaccines. Staff questioned what they saw as inappropriate, internal documents obtained by NPR show.

Here are your morning headlines for Thursday, April 9: Portage County has strong cluster of COVID-19 cases; Smaller surge of cases expected in Ohio;...

"The first question is, is the vaccine safe? Frankly, I'm not going to trust the federal government's opinion," Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at a news conference.

And that's the best-case scenario laid out by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. The commission said the continent, in the worst case, may see up to 3.3 million deaths this year alone.

Documentarian Ken Burns believed there were three major crises in the nation's past: The Civil War, the Depression and World War II. Now, he says, we are living through the fourth.

"If that rule had gone into effect, then every hospital, every nursing home would essentially have to have a plan," said David Michaels, former Occupational Safety and Health Administration chief.

Here are your morning headlines for Wednesday, May 27: Akron's Soap Box Derby canceled; Ohio to test staff in nursing homes for COVID-19; E-signature...

Confirmation hearings begin Monday for Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland. The U.S. will reach another grim COVID-19 record. For Texans who have electricity, that good fortune is costing them.

More than 200,000 people in the U.S. have died of COVID-19. We hear from three areas of the country about how the pandemic has affected life there.