MPR News

Rob Stein

Recent Contributions

  • Pandemic shortens U.S. life expectancy, study concludes
  • Mask-wearing, social distancing improve, but too slowly, survey shows
  • Vaccines are coming, but the U.S. still needs more testing to stop the surge
  • FDA authorizes 1st home coronavirus test that doesn't require a prescription
  • Social distancing plummeted in lead-up to fall surge, survey finds
  • CDC likely to recommend shortening coronavirus quarantine period
  • A rush on coronavirus testing strains laboratories, drives supply shortages
  • Many places hard hit by COVID-19 leaned more toward Trump in 2020 than 2016
  • Mask-wearing is up in the U.S., but young people are still too lax, CDC survey finds
  • COVID test results get faster, but still too slow to help slow disease spread