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Europe starts to loosen up the quarantine restrictions and reopen economies. But some countries are expecting — even planning for — the next wave of the coronavirus outbreaks.

Gilead Sciences, Inc., an American biopharmaceutical company, has published early results of a coronavirus drug trial on Wednesday. NPR science correspondents update on the latest coronavirus news.

Governments worldwide are tracing people with COVID-19 to stop the spread of the virus. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker about the state's contact tracing efforts.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Scott Greer, political scientist at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, about how states are reinventing federalism amid an absence of federal leadership.

The latest weekly state unemployment figures have been published on Thursday — more than three more million people are out of work.

The United States has the highest coronavirus death toll in the world. NPR's international correspondents discuss what the U.S. response to the pandemic means for America's standing in the world.

NPR's science and national correspondents discuss Rick Bright's testimony on Thursday. Bright says his warnings about critical shortages of masks and other medical supplies went unheeded.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former head of the Food and Drug Administration, and Andy Slavitt, who led the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, about reopening the country.

X's first album 35 years takes its place alongside the best work they've ever done. The music on Alphabetland is the sound of X snatching back its past in order to fuel the music of its future.

"They have the right to be searched for, and we have the right to search for them," says the mother of a man who has been missing since 2013. Relatives say the government does little to help.