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In an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll, 50% say they or someone in their household has lost hours or a job due to the pandemic. They also say their governor is doing a better job than the president is.

Lawmakers in the House are poised to approve nearly $500 billion in additional coronavirus-related economic aid. NPR's Noel King talks to GOP Rep. Michael McCaul about how the money will be used.

Before the coronavirus crisis, there were briefly more women on American payrolls than men. That's no longer true. Women accounted for 55% of the increase in job losses last month.

There is only one drug that researchers say has been scientifically shown to help COVID-19: remdesivir. But it is not proven to reduce mortality. So, researchers keep looking for other treatments.

Trump told a Fox News host that some people with coronavirus "get better just by ... sitting around and even going to work." He later tweeted that he wasn't telling people to go to work while sick.

NPR science and politics correspondents relay the latest updates in the United States response to the coronavirus epidemic.

NPR's Noel King talks to medicinal chemist Katherine Seley-Radtke about hydroxychloroquine, a malaria and arthritis drug touted by the president as a COVID-19 remedy with limited clinical evidence.

Japan's prime minister announces Tuesday that the Tokyo Olympics, originally due to start July 24 will be postponed until next summer, at latest.

The virus is upending burial traditions across cultures, from the washing of the body of a loved one in Iraq to the gathering of mourners in Israel.

There are definitely similarities between COVID-19, caused by the coronavirus, and influenza. But there are critical differences as well, including the death rate.