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Close up view of a doctor wearing surgical mask and a face shield in a hospital COVID ward. (Getty Images)

Vaccine mandate & hospital staffing wars

Lauren Weber - KFF Health News
Cal firefighter Travis Moore lights a backfire along highway 50 as the Caldor Fire burns near Lake Tahoe, CA on Tuesday August 31, 2021. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

California wildfires jump the Sierra

Nicole Karlis
Syringes with the Astrazeneca active ingredient (l-r), Comirnaty from Biontech/Pfizer and from Moderna lie prepared in trays for vaccination against Corona. (Robert Michael/picture alliance via Getty Images)

The push to vaccinate in conflict zones

Madeline Drexler - Undark
Damage in the city of Pointe-Aux-Chenes, near montegut, Louisiana on August 30, 2021 after Hurricane Ida made landfall. - The death toll from Hurricane Ida was expected to climb "considerably," Louisiana's governor warned Monday, as rescuers combed through the "catastrophic" damage wreaked as it tore through the southern United States as a Category 4 storm. (MARK FELIX/AFP via Getty Images)

Hurricane Ida's eviction crisis

Adam Mahoney - Grist
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The Dust Bowl, a windmill in the Netherlands, a Hurricane, and an Easter Island head (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Sepia Times/NASA/Michael Dunning/Adam Jones)

How civilizations thwart extinction

Matthew Rozsa
Pro-choice protest. (Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)

Dems say abortion in jeopardy in recall

Rachel Bluth - KFF Health News
Monarch Butterfly (Getty Images/Claude LeTien)

How ESA could harm monarch butterflies

Lila Westreich - Massive Science
A man with a mouth guard shows a can of ivermectin capsules as he comes out of the pharmacy. (Rodrigo Urzagasti/picture alliance via Getty Images)

We got an ivermectin script in 3 hours

Nicole Karlis
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Reproductive Rights Protest | A combination pack of mifepristone (L) and misoprostol tablets, two medicines used together, also called the abortion pill. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Elisa Wells/Plan C/Pete Marovich)

Texas extremists come for abortion pills

Lupe M. Rodríguez
Cannabis plant (Getty Images)

Clashes over cannabis, race and water

Theo Whitcomb - Undark
Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters at Global Citizen VAX LIVE: The Concert To Reunite The World (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Global Citizen VAX LIVE)

Venues banking on negative COVID tests

Eric Berger - KFF Health News
Medics from the Houston Fire Department EMS prepare to transport a man with possible Covid-19 symptoms to a hospital on August 16, 2021 in Houston, Texas. Texas' largest city is seeing a major surge of the Delta variant of the virus, taxing emergency personnel and overwhelming city hospitals. (John Moore/Getty Images)

Delta twice as likely to hospitalize

Nicole Karlis
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Doctor put label COVID-19 vaccine sticker on vaccination card (Getty Images)

Is it a crime to forge a vaccine card?

Christopher Robertson, Wesley Oliver - The Conversation
Students and teacher in school during COVID-19 pandemic, wearing masks (Getty Images)

Educators are now public health workers

Matthew Rozsa
Tablets of Ivermectin drugs (Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Judge orders hospital to use Ivermectin

Igor Derysh
A health worker prepares a dose of the vaccine against COVID-19 (Getty Images)

COVID may evolve, but get your shot!

Andrew Read - The Conversation
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Charlie Watts performs with The A,B,C,D of Boogie Woogie at Le New Morning on October 2, 2011 in Paris, France. (Getty Images/David Wolff - Patrick/Redferns)

Why drumming is good for your health

Tracy Brown Hamilton
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The dangers of dietary supplements

Shelby Bradford - Massive Science
Tom Daley of Great Britain knits during the preliminary round of the men's 3m springboard at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre on day ten of the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. (Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile via Getty Images)

Pandemic hobbies are good for the brain

Ruth Kogen Goodwin
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8 kitchen shelf ideas to maximize space

Sarah Lyon - Food52
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Rudolph Giuliani, attorney for President Donald Trump, conducts a news conference at the Republican National Committee, on lawsuits regarding the outcome of the 2020 presidential election on Thursday, November 19, 2020. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

The limits of public hygiene

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A nurse cares for a coronavirus (COVID-19) patient in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at El Centro Regional Medical Center in hard-hit Imperial County on July 28, 2020 in El Centro, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Alla Katsnelson
A drone view of Point Richmond is seen in Richmond, Calif., on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. (Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)

On reversing racist housing policies

Joe Purtell - Undark
Activists hold placards during a demonstration (Sunil Pradhan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Why abortion roadblocks lead to violence

Kylie Cheung
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