Yuki Noguchi
Yuki Noguchi is a correspondent on the Science Desk based out of NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. She started covering consumer health in the midst of the pandemic, reporting on everything from vaccination and racial inequities in access to health, to cancer care, obesity and mental health.
Since joining NPR in 2008, Noguchi has also covered a range of business and economic news, with a special focus on the workplace — anything that affects how and why we work. In recent years, she has covered the rise of the contract workforce, the #MeToo movement, the Great Recession and the subprime housing crisis. In 2011, she covered the earthquake and tsunami in her parents' native Japan. Her coverage of the impact of opioids on workers and their families won a 2019 Gracie Award and received First Place and Best In Show in the radio category from the National Headliner Awards. She also loves featuring offbeat topics, and has eaten insects in service of journalism.
Noguchi started her career as a reporter, then an editor, for The Washington Post.
Noguchi grew up in St. Louis, inflicts her cooking on her two boys and has a degree in history from Yale.
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Employers are wrestling with a new set of thorny legal issues as they consider whether to mandate vaccination for employees returning to the workplace.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released preliminary data on Wednesday showing the number of births in the U.S. has dropped to the lowest level since 1979.
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Drug store chain CVS is piloting a program to bring mental health counseling into 12 retail stores. The goal is to improve access to care, and reduce medical costs associated with poor mental health.
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Vaccine passports are a flashpoint in the COVID-19 pandemic, but they were used decades ago to help control smallpox. After smallpox was eradicated, there was no longer a need for the passports.
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About half of dialysis patients nationally are Black or Latino and vulnerable to severe Covid-19 or death. Many get dialysis three times a week, so vaccinating at those centers would be efficient.
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Misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines began circulating the Black community when chat groups were infiltrated to sow doubt. There are now tactics to spread more accurate information about vaccines.
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Some doctors are seeing a disturbing spike in lethal alcoholic liver disease, especially among young women. The recent trend has been supercharged, they say, by the pandemic's isolation and pressures. -
The CDC says it's safe for some friends and family to meet indoors, smile without masks and dine next to each other — if some of those taking part are fully vaccinated and the others are at low risk.
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The Biden team wants to swiftly vaccinate people of color and others most vulnerable to COVID-19. But health centers are learning that speed and achieving racial equity don't always go hand in hand.
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Federal plans to administer vaccines through retail pharmacies launched on Thursday. But the rollout is limited; only 6,500 stores will receive a million doses a week to start.
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People experiencing homelessness are especially vulnerable to disease. NPR looks at one Baltimore clinic trying to overcome the unique hurdles that come with vaccinating them against COVID-19.
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The Biden administration this week will send a million vaccine doses to 6,500 of the nation's more than 40,000 pharmacies. We examine the logistics, and how consumers will sign up for appointments.
