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Gig companies like Instacart and Uber promise financial assistance to workers affected by the coronavirus. But some workers are finding it hard to get that aid.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who earlier tested positive for COVID-19, was admitted to a hospital Sunday as a precautionary step. And, Queen Elizabeth urged self-discipline amid the pandemic.

NPR's Ari Shapiro checks in with Olga Sagan, owner of Piroshky Piroshky bakery in Seattle, about how business is going amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The coronavirus has eliminated rallies from President Trump's reelection campaign. However, the campaign always saw rallies as critical for gathering data and contacts to follow up with digitally.

During the flu epidemic of 1918, the town of Gunnison, Colo. shut itself off from the world. Today, Gunnison County has been hit hard by the coronavirus, and is asking outsiders to stay away again.

Republican officials in several states are trying to ban abortion during the coronavirus pandemic to preserve medical supplies.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Anabel González, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, about the European Union's decision to restrict the export of medical gear.

President Trump invoked the Defense Production Act "against" 3M to get the company to make more N95 face masks available to American medical workers.

NATO, the world's most powerful military alliance, turns 70 this week. But is the alliance that was founded "to keep the Soviet Union out, the Americans in, and the Germans down" still necessary?

The U.S. went from measles-free in 2000 to the largest outbreak in 25 years. NPR's David Greene talks to Jennifer Reich, author of Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines.