Pandemic

St. Louis officials stressed last spring that two downtown tent encampments posed a threat to public health, eventually relocating residents to temporary housing across the city. An investigation by St. Louis Public Radio in collaboration with APM Reports has found the city may have put residents in harm's way by placing them at hotels with a history of criminal violence, drug activity and unsanitary living conditions.

Chess is a great way to pass the time during the pandemic ... or anytime.

A new study from Gender & Society found that, in states where schools doubled down on remote learning, the difference in labor force participation between mothers and fathers grew significantly, exacerbating the preexisting gap. Washington University sociologist Caitlyn Collins discussed the study on "St. Louis on the Air."

St. Louis singer-songwriter Haley Woolbright explains how the secret love song she wrote to surprise her fiance at their wedding has become a song for her husband due to the pandemic canceling the wedding they'd planned. She shared her new track "Long Game" on St. Louis on the Air.

The biggest campaign on Kickstarter right now comes courtesy of a St. Louis dad who lost his job in the pandemic and decided to go all-in on a simple idea with big appeal: magnetic pillow forts. Conor B. Lewis explains his vision for Fort.

At least 13.6 million Americans have caught the coronavirus this year — more people than the entire populations of Michigan and Iowa combined. But the situation likely will get much worse this winter, based on new research from Washington University.

It's been more than two months since a new Missouri state law went into effect, allowing families to install cameras in the rooms of nursing home residents. But the logistics of installing these devices during a pandemic have proven challenging, leading to months of frustration for some families.

Though the city of St. Louis has added hundreds of new beds this year, outreach organizations are worried about the possibility of viral spread within emergency homeless shelters. With the first day of winter less than seven weeks away, these groups are scrambling to rewrite existing shelter procedures in an effort to keep the virus at bay.

How did Missouri celebrate Halloween during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic? A professor shares what she's found in her research — and describes how Halloween has changed in the last century even beyond the need to contain germs.

How do diseases jump from animals to humans? And is there anything we can do to stop them? A Washington University professor explains the problem — and some possible solutions.