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The COVID-19 lockdown in Europe means no weddings, funerals, or dinner parties — drying up the market for flowers and the livelihood of Kenyan farmers who export their blooms.

Sunday marks the 25th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. An NPR national correspondent remembers covering that act of terrorism — and how it changed the city and the country.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with community activist Taneeza Islam about workers at a Smithfield Foods meatpacking plant in Sioux Falls, S.D., where hundreds have tested positive for the coronavirus.

Guatemalan officials say dozens of recent deportees from the U.S. have tested positive for the coronavirus. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Molly O'Toole of the Los Angeles Times.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Scott Greer, political scientist at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, about how states are reinventing federalism amid an absence of federal leadership.

The president still hopes to see some states begin easing social distancing measures before May 1, but health care authorities warn of a long road to recovery for the United States.

"Right now," he says, "there's a lot of anxiety and fear concerning this working environment because this virus we don't see, we don't hear, we can't touch, we can't feel it."

Recruitment is underway in Central Florida for a clinical trial to see if hydroxychloroquine could help prevent COVID-19 infections.

Last week, Michael Kevin Rathel got a transfusion of convalescent plasma: a blood donation from someone who has recovered from COVID-19. A week after the plasma, he got discharged out of Orlando Regional Medical Center’s intensive care unit to a regular unit.

On Friday, Governor Ron DeSantis met with his newly-formed task force to discuss how to reopen the state. This meeting comes as he faces growing criticism over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.