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People wearing facemasks to help stop the spread of a deadly virus which began in the city, wait at Wuhan Red Cross Hospital in Wuhan on January 24, 2020. (Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty)

WHO experts: next pandemic may be worse

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
Doctors and nurses taking care of patients in ICU at hospital during COVID-19 (Getty Images)

Lost on the frontline

Christina Jewett, Robert Lewis, Melissa Bailey - KFF Health News
Group Of Dogs With Owners At Obedience Class (Getty/Highwaystarz-Photography)

How to help pet separation anxiety

Lori M Teller - The Conversation
A sign warning of radiation, taken in Pripyat, Ukraine, April 2017. OVER 30 years after the nuclear disaster of Chernobyl, the city of Pripyat is exactly as it was the day it was evacuated. On the afternoon of April 27, 1986 a population of almost 50,000 abandoned the city following a catastrophic nuclear accident. (Andreas Jansen / Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

Chernobyl heads to the water table

Matthew Rozsa
Joe Biden (Getty Images)

Can Biden restore the EPA?

Joel A. Mintz - The Revelator
Ski lift filled with fresh powder snow during a snow storm (Getty Images)

Ski resorts work to stay open amid COVID

Christie Aschwanden - KFF Health News
Dr. Michael Ford's office sits closed after he was found guilty on 15 charges of prescription and Medicaid fraud in a remote area of southwestern Virginias coal country where prescription opioids flooded the area decimating communities like Appalachia, Virginia, on Monday July 22, 2019. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Big Pharma needs an Appalachian elegy

Bobi Conn
Joe Biden and John Kerry (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

John Kerry talks about saving the planet

Abrahm Lustgarten - ProPublica
Firefighter holding an axe in his hand (Getty Images)

Firefighters pumping oxygen

Eli Cahan - KFF Health News
Tenino, Washington police chief Bob Swain playing guitar at home in June. Earlier in the year he was told his kidneys were failing and dialysis was necessary. But he had other plans. (Larry C. Price)

Treating people, not disease, in care

Carrie Arnold - Undark
The galaxy GN-z11, which scientists think could be the farthest and oldest galaxy every observed, superimposed on an image from the COODS-North survey. (NASA, ESA, P. Oesch (Yale University), G. Brammer (STScI), P. van Dokkum (Yale University), and G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz))

The most distant galaxy upends physics

Nicole Karlis
Traffic on the northbound and the southbound lanes of the Interstate 405 freeway near Los Angeles International Aiprort (Getty/Kevork Djansezian)

In battle against "the highway disease"

Myron Levin, Eli Wolfe - FairWarning
Illustration of a coronal mass ejection impacting the Earth s atmosphere. These events, CMEs for short, are powerful releases of solar charged particles (plasma) and magnetic field, travelling on the solar wind. (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Congress' action for climate in stimulus

Shannon Osaka - Grist
(Getty/Andrew Harrer/Schroptschop)

12 Trump attacks on the environment

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
Joe BIden (Joshua Roberts/Getty Images)

Joe Biden's stutter is a gift to America

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Dr. Jason Smith displays his bandage after being administered a COVID-19 vaccination at University of Louisville Hospital on December 14, 2020 in Louisville, Kentucky. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine became available for specified use on Monday morning to five members of hospital staff. Dr. Smith became the first recipient of the vaccine in the state of Kentucky. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

Inside the effort to vaccinate America

Rachana Pradhan, Lauren Weber, Jay Hancock - KFF Health News
A vaccine syringe is held over a model of a coronavirus (Peter Endig/picture alliance via Getty Images)

COVID vaccine conflicts in nursing homes

Judith Graham - KFF Health News
US President-elect Joe Biden receives a Covid-19 vaccination from Tabe Mase, Nurse Practitioner and Head of Employee Health Services, at the Christiana Care campus in Newark, Delaware on December 21, 2020. (Alex Edelman / AFP / Getty Images)

Why vaccine hesitancy is deadly

Matthew Rozsa
Corona virus close up wide shot in blood (Getty Images)

Many health experts underestimated COVID

Liz Szabo - KFF Health News
Traci Evans-Simmons has been on dialysis for three years and waiting for a kidney transplant since early 2019. She is considering getting a kidney transplant from a hepatitis C-positive donor. (Larry C. Price)

Can less-than-perfect donors save lives?

Carrie Arnold - Undark
President- elect Joe Biden (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The White House will get scrubbed down

Phil Galewitz - KFF Health News
USA, Washington, Leavenworth In Winter, Street Scene With Holiday Lights, Evening. (Getty Images)

Leavenworth lost

Joseph Winters - Grist
Supporters of President Donald Trump gather to protest the election results (Courtney Pedroza/Getty Images)

Why some don't believe election results

David M. Mayer - The Conversation
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) (Getty Images/ Jim Lo Scalzo-Pool)

Cruz blocking Biden from climate action

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
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