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Florida added 5,093 new coronavirus cases today for a total of 1,957,314 residents who have gotten sick since the start of the pandemic.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Aisha Yaqoob Mahmood of the Asian American Advocacy Fund about many in Asian American communities saying they've seen an uptick in violence against people of Asian descent.

The grant from the Florida Charities Foundation will go toward a new black box theatre, dance facility and costume shop on the Winter Park campus.

NPR tours the factory of the world's largest vaccine maker: Serum Institute of India. It's manufacturing nearly 100 million doses a month of the Oxford-AstraZeneca formula and exporting them globally.

One in five COVID-19 survivors will develop a mental illness within 90 days of their diagnosis.

About 30,000 pilots, flight attendants and other airline workers can tear up furlough notices. Federal stimulus money will help them keep their jobs, and transit agencies are getting a boost too.

Some states are prioritizing farmworkers in their vaccine rollout. Many of these workers are from Mexico, and are getting vaccinated much sooner than they would in their home countries.

The winner of the 2021 Regeneron Science Talent Search is 18-year old Yunseo Choi for playing theoretical "matchmaker" using algorithms. She won $250,000.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Rhea Boyd, a pediatrician in California's Bay Area, about Black Americans' lack of access to COVID-19 vaccines, and inequality issues in health care.

The Boston Globe and Boston University Center for Antiracist Research are partnering to create The Emancipator, an independent antiracist multimedia platform, which launches later this year.