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NPR's Noel King talks to Dr. Harvey Fineberg of the National Academies Standing Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases and 21st Century Health Threats. He has advised the White House on COVID-19.

As colleges shift to online classes, many schools are beginning to reevaluate how they grade students. One common option: going pass-fail.

Pulmonologists in New York hospitals are now supervising doctors from other specialties as they try to keep ICUs staffed and are deploying equipment in new ways. But COVID-19 is a demoralizing foe.

For Democrats it's a dream scenario: an unlimited budget to run against Donald Trump. Bloomberg will spend that money on behalf of any Democrat, according to Tim O'Brien, Bloomberg senior adviser.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to sports correspondent Tom Goldman about the sign-stealing controversy in major league baseball and a rule change in women's tennis.

One thing the history of leprosy tells us: When you restrict people's freedoms, they go underground, and fail to seek treatment.

To prepare for more development, lawmakers in Florida are commissioning new toll roads through rural areas. But some communities are pushing back. "We don't need this toll road," one resident says.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Democratic Rep. Anthony Brown of Maryland about the strategy for the Pete Buttigieg campaign to gain traction with black voters heading into the South Carolina primary.

The pugnacious post-bop player and composer, who was mentored by Miles Davis and Clark Terry, had been hospitalized since last Wednesday.

After spending many years tracing the outline of a music career, Diffie finally found success in the early '90s with songs featuring his patented honky-tonk attitude.