Christianna Silva

Heidi Larson, the director of the Vaccine Confidence Project, has travelled the world studying vaccine misinformation. Simply put, she says, a bad vaccine is "not in anyone's interest."

The three-week order prohibits all public and private gatherings with individuals outside of a person's household, with limited exceptions for religious services and protests.

Moncef Slaoui, the chief scientific adviser for Operation Warp Speed, says that some Americans could start receiving a COVID-19 vaccine by the second week of December.

On Friday alone, there were 195,000 new confirmed cases of the virus and 1,878 deaths. The U.S. has been adding 1 million cases every six days.

PBS Newshour correspondent John Yang reflects on his experience participating in Moderna's coronavirus vaccine trial. "It started off with self-interest — I wanted to get the vaccine sooner," he says.

U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams says people are tired and aren't taking mitigation measures as seriously as before.

Faced with overloaded hospitals, doctors in South Dakota and North Dakota struggle to deal with uncontained community spread of COVID-19 and with medical staffing issues in their states.

Physician Taison Bell reflects on the messaging around COVID-19 disparities and whether that's impacted how some people are responding to measures to control the virus.

NPR's All Things Consideredhas spent weeks asking experts how the nation can move forward after a bitter election. They say healing is possible, but people have to be willing to try.

Illinois is experiencing an upsurge in cases, leading the governor to close indoor dining and bar service in some places in the state. But local leaders are not backing the new guidelines.