In our continuing series looking at the latest medical research and news on COVID-19, host Larry Mantle speaks with Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, infectious disease specialist and professor of medicine at the UCSF Medical Center.

It’s been just under two months since Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón took office, but he’s wasted no time implementing criminal justice reforms that he hopes will address two major issues that he’s made a focus of his term so far: reducing incarceration and addressing racial inequities within the criminal justice system.

Last week, President Biden’s administration began implementing a new climate change approach, one which includes rejoining international climate policies and investing in renewable energy.

Jaime Rogozinski, a former moderator of the now-famous Reddit forum that sent GameStop stock soaring, saw the chaos coming. For too long, Wall Street has been "an invite-only club," he says.

As Twitter and Facebook crack down on those spreading baseless QAnon conspiracies, adherents are finding other apps to communicate, including platforms where they may be further radicalized.

Among the fairly unknown team from South Carolina is Butch Bowers, who represents public officials in ethics cases. A first for him, he has to defend the former president in a trial unlike any other.

"People are tired of being at home," one travel advisor says as an industry decimated by the pandemic begins to see small signs that a recovery might be on the way.

Dr. Paul Stoffels, the chief scientific officer at Johnson & Johnson, tells NPR the company's vaccine is very effective where it matters most: preventing hospitalizations and deaths.

The fifth most populous country has put strategies in place to address anti-vaccine sentiment and prevent elites from using their influence to obtain government vaccines.

The Biden administration had Day One plans for the pandemic, economy and climate change. Experts say they haven't yet seen that same focus on the addiction crisis, which is killing 220 people a day.