Pien Huang
Pien Huang is a global health and development reporter on the Science desk. She was NPR's first Reflect America Fellow, working with shows, desks and podcasts to bring more diverse voices to air and online.
She's a former producer for WBUR/NPR's On Point and was a 2018 Environmental Reporting Fellow with at WCAI in Cape Cod, covering the human impact on climate change. As a freelance audio and digital reporter, Huang's stories on the environment, arts and culture have been featured on NPR, the BBC and PRI's The World.
Huang's experiences span categories and continents. She was executive producer of Data Made to Matter, a podcast from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and was also an adjunct instructor in podcasting and audio journalism at Northeastern University. She worked as a project manager for public artist to help plan and execute The Founder's Memorial in Abu Dhabi and with to tell visual stories through graphic design. Huang has traveled with scientists looking for signs of environmental change in Cameroon's frogs, in Panama's plants and in the ocean water off the ice edge of Antarctica. She has a degree in environmental science and public policy from Harvard.
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COVID-19 cases in Kansas City remain at their highest levels since February 2022. But revised guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lifts quarantine requirements and loosens protocols for schools. -
The Centers For Disease Control and Prevention announced that masks are no longer recommended indoors in places with low or medium community risk for COVID-19. However, all counties in the Kansas City metro are still rated as high risk, with the exception of Johnson County, Kansas. -
Millions of people in Africa are at high risk for COVID-19 and lack reliable access to doctors or medical equipment. Health officials are focusing on preventing the spread of the disease. -
The World Health Organization says that a high percentage of positive tests means that local health authorities are focusing on obvious cases and not getting a clear picture of epidemic's scope. -
As the virus makes copies of itself, errors may creep in, changing its genetic makeup. Researchers are trying to determine if the changes are significant. -
There are definitely similarities between COVID-19, caused by the coronavirus, and influenza. But there are critical differences as well, including the death rate. -
In Wuhan, China, most of the millions of people on lockdown have not gotten sick from COVID-19. But worries and isolation can affect their mental health. -
These designations are often used to describe a patient's COVID-19 symptoms. At this stage of the outbreak, there aren't standard definitions, but there are preliminary guidelines. -
Here are recommendations from researchers on how to stave off infectious diseases such as the common cold and the flu during a flight. -
After looking at the patterns of spread in China, researchers have come up with advice for effective strategies to reduce the risk of infection.
