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A child with a mask with a Christmas hat decorates the Christmas tree in his house (Simona Granati - Corbis/Getty Images)

Omicron's risk to kids

Nicole Karlis
Medford, N.Y.: Instructors at the Northeast regional headquarters of Canine Companions for Independence in Medford, New York, train dogs to work with veterans who are struggling with PTSD. One of those dogs, Boise, a Labrador-Golden Retriever mix, is shown here resting his chin on the lap of instructor Leah Jacobson during a demonstration where she signaled that she was in a a state of anxiety by shaking her leg. Boise responded to the shaking by putting his chin on her lap in an effort to calm her. (John Paraksevas/Newsday RM via Getty Images)

How service dogs help veterans with PTSD

Stephanie O'Neill - KFF Health News
Houston Fire Department paramedics transport a woman with breathing difficulties to a hospital on September 14, 2021 in Houston, Texas. Texas' Harris County continues to see large number of Covid-19 hospitalizations due to the Delta variant surge in the state. (John Moore/Getty Images)

COVID deaths in 2021 top 2020

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
Coronavirus COVID-19 (Getty Images)

How deadly is omicron?

Nicole Karlis
Joe Biden | Corinavirus (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Biden's historic omicron address

Matthew Rozsa
Transmission electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, isolated from a patient. Image captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. (IMAGE POINT FR/NIH/NIAID/BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Omicron's perplexing origin story

Matthew Rozsa
Young woman painting her lips red over a face mask (Getty Images/Cavan Images)

Face masks erase beauty bias: study

Matthew Rozsa
Rusted manhole cover in the cement of an abandoned street (Bob Chamberlin/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

The past, present, and future of poop

Jenny Morber - Undark
A slum in area Sura in Lagos, Nigeria (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Dredging in Lagos

Maggie Andresen, Samuel Denapo, Lydia Chain - Undark
A squirrel holding a nut (Getty Images/suefeldberg)

Squirrel privilege is real

Nicole Karlis
A technical drawing is seen on screen as Systems Engineers Christopher Murray (R) works at his console at the Webb Mission Office ahead of the James Web Space Telescopes launch at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, on December 3, 2021. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

The James Webb telescope's big gamble

Nicole Karlis
(Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)

What will become of Alaska’s coast?

Jonathan C. Slaght - Undark
A young sad adult man sitting alone on wooden bench (Getty Images/FotoDuets)

Where the depressed are not welcome

Robert Isaacs
Out of control fire on Narrow Neck Plateau, Katoomba, Blue Mountains, Australia. Climate change is causing extreme weather, prolonged droughts and increasing bushfires | Empty store shelves are seen in a supermarket as people has been stocking up for food and other essential items fearing the supply shortages (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Climate change is coming for your food

Matthew Rozsa
Young woman getting online medical help and advice during video-call with doctor (iStock/Getty Images)

Virtual physican check-ins fuels debate

Julie Appleby - KFF Health News
Homes remain flooded as Texas moved toward recovery from the devastation of Hurricane Harvey on September 4, 2017 in Houston, Texas. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

FEMA to track disaster support by race

Adam Mahoney - Grist
Anti-vaccine mandate protesters demonstrate, on August 24, 2021, outside of the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, to support the Vaccine Choice and Anti-Discrimination Act, a bill that would prohibit mandatory vaccinations, and vaccination status disclosures. (STEPHEN ZENNER/AFP via Getty Images)

Anti-vaxxers co-opt "my body, my choice"

Nathan Nobis
Laughing Couple Lying On Bed With Dog At Home (Getty images)

Baby talk in romantic relationships?

Ramesh Kaipa - The Conversation
Anti-Abortion activists gather in oppostion in front of the supreme court during the annual Women’s March October 2, 2021 in Washington, DC. The Women's March and other groups organized marches across the country to protest the new abortion law in Texas. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

When the right wasn't anti-abortion

Matthew Rozsa
A Covid-19 infected patient receiving medical oxygen for breathing comfortably seen inside a Covid care center of the Commonwealth Games (CWG) villages temporarily converted into a Covid-19 care facility. (Naveen Sharma/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

A view from the COVID vortex

Jenny Gold - KFF Health News
Nutmeg seeds and ground nutmeg (Getty Images/fcafotodigital)

This is your brain on nutmeg

Daniel Karel
Plastic garbage lying on the Aegean sea beach near Athens on June 26, 2018 , Greece. (Getty/Milos Bicanski)

It's raining plastic

Charlotte Stevenson - Undark
Coronavirus, COVID-19 (Getty Images/DrPixel)

How omicron will spread across America

Matthew Rozsa
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) listens during a committee meeting on Capitol Hill on October 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Manchin strips down seniors' dental care

Phil Galewitz - KFF Health News
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