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People in the U.S. Virgin Islands are still reeling more than a week after being hit with the full force of Hurricane Irma. On St. Thomas, water and power have not been restored in many areas.

Older people who took a few weeks of classes to train their brains reported doing slightly better at activities of daily living a decade later compared with people who hadn't been trained. But the perceived difference might be explained by the expectation that training would help.

Twenty-six people have fallen ill from the bacteria, including residents in California, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York. Nine of those people have been hospitalized.

Hundreds of people took part in Asbury Park's annual zombie walk. People wear costumes — at least we think it's people in costumes.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports that a traditional game of deliberately submitting to electric shocks is still being played in Mexico as well as Central and South America. Practitioners approach people, often in bars, and for a small fee, attach them to a device that applies an electric shock, which intensifies until the client can no longer take it. People who play call it say it's a fun game of endurance. But some American doctors question the safety of the practice, especially for people who have undiscovered heart problems.

NPR's Joanne Silberner reports that a four year study of the health of people with chronic illnesses (high blood pressure, diabetes, recent heart attack, congestive heart failure, manic depression) showed that people in HMOs and people receiving traditional fee-for-service care did about the same, EXCEPT for the elderly and the poor in HMOs, who did worse. The HMO industry says the data, collected in 1990, doesn't reflect current HMO care, and that the difference wasn't that large.

Public health officials say millions of Americans who are at risk for the flu this winter still need to be vaccinated -- and some people who have already gotten shots might need a second dose. The CDC reports that a particularly dangerous strain of the flu is about this year...and even some people who have been vaccinated may not be fully protected. About 5 percent of people who got flu shots this year received a batch of vaccine that isn't as potent as it should have been. NPR's Richard Harris reports.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed its recommendations. Now it says people without coronavirus symptoms need to quarantine for 10 days, or seven — if they then test negative.

Earlier this year, Fonda made headlines for delivering a fiery critique of the Trump administration during a SAG-AFTRA award acceptance speech. "This is not the time to go inward," Fonda says.

"The second I stopped being afraid of someone calling me fat, I was able to start to focus on my goals and my dreams," Bryant says. She co-writes and stars in the Hulu comedy series Shrill.