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NPR national, science and White House correspondents cover the latest developments in the response of the United States to the coronavirus epidemic.

Kroger and Albertsons have joined the food workers union UFCW in urging state and national officials to give grocery staff higher priority for testing and access to masks and other protections.

"There's no light switch here. It's more like a dimmer," Gavin Newsom said Tuesday. "That dimmer is this toggling back and forth between more restrictive and less restrictive measures."

With much of the population staying at home, humane societies have reported high interest in adopting or fostering pets. Veterinarian Krista Miller answers questions about pets and the coronavirus.

An NPR science editor and Donald Schaffner, a professor of food microbiology, walk listeners through what they should be doing to stay safe while grocery shopping and after bringing food home.

Utah is one of the first states able to advance beyond mitigation and into a containment strategy for COVID-19. What does that look like for public health and the state's economy?

The coronavirus is hitting African Americans especially hard. Republican Sen. Tim Scott says the federal government is trying to keep black communities informed.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Dr. Stephen Brunnquell of the Physicians Network at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center about Bergen County, New Jersey's large number of COVID-19 patients.

Parents are juggling working from home while dealing with their children's school assignments. Some have set aside distance learning altogether in favor of their own teaching methods.

The U.S. Public Health Service has won congressional authorization for a ready reserve of doctors and nurses to deploy across the country.