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A Smithfield Foods plant in South Dakota that produces 4% to 5% of the nation's pork supply has become the latest meat processing facility to shut down as COVID-19 sickens plant workers.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to NPR's Geoff Brumfiel and to Crystal Watson, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, about the proposal for a national contact tracing program.

Officials said Monday that mainland China had 169 new confirmed cases, 98 of which were described as "imported." It was the largest increase since March 6.

On March 13, President Trump promised to mobilize private and public resources to respond to the coronavirus. NPR followed up on each promise and found little action had been taken.

Hokkaido, which saw the country's highest incidence of coronavirus as the pandemic first swept through Asia, had been returning to normal until a sudden recent spike in cases.

Mississippi and Louisiana were hardest hit by the storms that were part of a band of severe weather stretching across the entire southeast of the country.

NPR's Tom Gjelten speaks with Gen. George Casey, Jr., former U.S. Army chief of staff, about the relationship between the White House and military leadership.

Keith Nathan of Bozeman, Mont., plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

Anne Caprara is part of the effort in Illinois to secure medical supplies during the pandemic. She tells NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and Eric Westervelt that the market is haphazard.

After weeks of social distancing and self-quarantine, listen to participants from NPR's Outbreak Diaries project about how they're spending their time and preserving their sanity.