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An NPR investigative reporter answers listener questions about how to spot scams predicated on the coronavirus.

Epidemiologist and infectious disease specialist Anne Rimoin answers listener questions about treating, and preventing the spread, of COVID-19.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with emergency medicine physician Dr. Megan Ranney about treating COVID-19 patients, and UCLA epidemiologist Anne Rimoin answers questions about the spread of the virus.

As the COVID-19 death toll climbs in the United States, an NPR science correspondent answers listener questions about surviving the virus.

NPR politics and science correspondents answer listener questions about the federal government response to the coronavirus and the possibility that as many as 100,000 Americans could be killed by it.

Computer models predict that between 100,000 and 200,000 Americans will die from COVID-19 in the months ahead. Administration officials said public health interventions could still lower the toll.

The Bureau of Prisons has announced that for the next two weeks, inmates in every institution across the country will be kept in their assigned cells or quarters.

In a briefing with the coronavirus task force, President Trump answered a question about a supply shortage of masks by suggesting that the public wear scarves instead.

The FDA has sent warning letters to seven marketers of products including essential oils, nasal sprays and herbal concoctions. No treatments or vaccines for COVID-19 have been approved.

A cruise ship with four dead and nearly 200 people who have been sick with suspected COVID-19 may dock in Fort Lauderdale if cruise company executives and public officials can agree on a plan.