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Margaret Keenan, 90, is the first patient in the United Kingdom to receive the Pfizer/BioNtech covid-19 vaccine at University Hospital, Coventry, administered by nurse May Parsons, at the start of the largest ever immunization program in the UK's history on December 8, 2020 in Coventry, United Kingdom. (Jacob King - Pool / Getty Images)

Yes, my mom should get the vaccine first

Mary Elizabeth Williams
mage of the Kinman Dwarf galaxy, also known as PHL 293B, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 in 2011, before the disappearance of the massive star. Located some 75 million light-years away, the galaxy is too far away for astronomers to clearly resolve its individual stars, but in observations done between 2001 and 2011, they detected the signatures of the massive star. These signatures were not present in more recent data. (NASA/ESA/Hubble/J. Andrews/University of Arizona))

The Star of Bethlehem's comeback?

Eric M. Vanden Eykel - The Conversation
Star of Bethlehem illustration (Getty Images)

A Star of Bethlehem redux?

Nicole Karlis
Crowds seen, on December 18, 2020 at Washington Reagan National Airport (DCA) with long queues at the Departure gates in Arlington, Virginia, as the Christmas holiday travel starts despite the Coronavirus pandemic. (DANIEL SLIM/AFP via Getty Images)

Public health doc says cancel travel now

Dean Obeidallah
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(Reuters/Doug Murray)

"The great conjunction" of 2020

William Teets - The Conversation
Bunny the talking Dog (Instagram/@what_about_bunny)

Can Bunny the talking dog really talk?

Nicole Karlis
Stressed out mother sipping on a cup of coffee on her messy bed while her three daughters are playing around her (Getty Images)

Moms deserve good sex!

Gail Cornwall
Giant Hogweed (Getty/hapelena)

The rise of the "superweeds"

Natasha Gilbert - Undark
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Alabama Mobile River (Getty Images)

Too late to save "America’s Amazon"?

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
Janice Brown hooked up to a dialysis machine in COVID-19 unit isolation room at Desert Valley Medical Group, Victorville. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Dialysis industry spends big on CA races

Samantha Young - KFF Health News
A United Airlines passenger jet prepares to land at Reagan National Airport on February 5, 2020 in Washington, DC (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Going home for the holidays may be risky

Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
A sign in front of King Elementary School encourages students to participate in remote learning on September 08, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois. Students at King Elementary and the rest of Chicago public schools started classes today with students being taught remotely because of COVID-19 concerns. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

COVID is causing a teacher shortage

Lesley Lavery
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(Getty/urbazon)

Cancer drugs: less might be more

Gunjan Sinha - Undark
Pumpjack at oil industry against cloudy sky during sunset in North Dakota, USA (Getty Images)

The push to plug abandoned oil wells

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
Medical workers load a patient from Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation Center into an ambulance while wearing masks and personal protective equipment (PPE) in Andover, New Jersey. After an anonymous tip to police, 17 people were found dead at the long-term care facility, including two nurses, where at least 76 patients and 41 staff members have tested positive for COVID-19. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)

Where do we go from here?

John R. Platt - The Revelator
Christmas Tree Farm (Getty Images)

Are Christmas tree pesticides dangerous?

Nicole Karlis
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David White, shown at his suburban Washington, D.C. apartment, was on dialysis for almost six years before a successful kidney transplant. (Larry C. Price)

Minorities' labyrinth to kidney care

Carrie Arnold - Undark
Brigid Yoder, Neuro Trauma ICU nurse, gets the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccination at the Legacy Emanuel Medical Center on December 16, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. Today was the first day of vaccinations in Oregon. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

What it's like to get the Pfizer vaccine

Nicole Karlis
Dr. Jeffrey Berns says the financial incentive for doctors to steer patients to clinics they co-own can affect patient care. (Larry C. Price)

American on dialysis: part two

Carrie Arnold - Undark
Former President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden at the White House on November 13, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Trump's false claim about 15% "immunity"

Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
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Dr. Jason Smith receives 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)

Hospitals rush to pick staff for vaccine

JoNel Aleccia - KFF Health News
Love during coronavirus pandemic (Getty Images)

Did public health fail single people?

Nicole Karlis
A health care worker injects the a syringe of the phase 3 vaccine trial, to a volunteer at the Ankara University Ibni Sina Hospital in Ankara, Turkey on October 27, 2020. This vaccine candidate developed against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic by the U.S. Pfizer and German BioNTech company. (Dogukan Keskinkilic/Anadolu Agency via Getty Image)

Retail can inform vaccine distribution

Christopher S. Tang, Tinglong Dai - The Conversation
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services building is pictured in Washington on Monday, July 13, 2020 (Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Trump rule could void health regulations

Phil Galewitz - KFF Health News
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