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A health worker wearing a personal protective equipment suit (PPE) take the cover off a manhole for inspection in Marseille. The COMETE unit (Covid Marseille Environmental Testing Expertise) collects samples of wastewater at various points in the city to determine the neighborhoods, schools or certain buildings contaminated by Covid-19 through testing of these samples. (Denis Thaust/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

A new COVID detection tool: poop

Anna Maria Barry-Jester - KFF Health News
A group gathered at an anti-vaccine protest (Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

The psychology of anti-vaccination

Doreen Dodgen-Magee
Box of vaccine vials (Getty images/Iryna Veklich)

Hoarding the vaccine at our own peril

Charlotte Kilpatrick
Tuli, 11, walks long distances every morning and evening to collect drinking water with her mother and aunt. Her school is closed due to the coronavirus pandemic and she passes her time doing household work with her mother. All visuals by ZAKIR HOSSAIN CHOWDHURY for UNDARK (Zakir Hossain Chowdhury / Undark)

Long walks for fresh water in Bangladesh

Zakir Hossain Chowdhury - Undark
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Perseverance rover on Mars (NASA)

Mystery of the missing Mars rock solved

Nicole Karlis
A coronavirus patient lies on a bed inside in a ward at Al-Ataa hospital. (Ameer Al Mohammedaw/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Can the vaccinated get "long COVID"?

Nicole Karlis
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Debate erupts over women’s libido drugs

Teresa Carr - Undark
A doctor prepares syringes that contain the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against Covid-19 at a mobile vaccination center in the Markkleeberg suburb town hall on May 10, 2021 in Leipzig, Germany. Germany has succeeded in accelerating its nationwide vaccinations in recent weeks. Approximately one third of the population has received a first dose. (Jens Schlueter/Getty Images)

Rush to boosters sparks confusion

Sarah Jane Tribble - KFF Health News
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Virus Cells (Catherine McQueen/Getty Images)

How HIV research helped fight COVID-19

Matthew Rozsa
Blood is drawn from a young woman ( Bernd von Jutrczenka/picture alliance via Getty Images)

COVID skeptics want blood from unvaxxed

JoNel Aleccia - KFF Health News
Young woman behind prison bars (Getty Images)

Prisons are breeding COVID

Danielle Wallace - The Conversation
In this photo illustration a box of Ivermectina medicine seen on display. Manufactured by Vitamedic in Brazil Ivermectin has attracted global controversy as a potential COVID treatment. The World Health Organisation has advised against widespread use of the drug as a treatment for Covid 19. (Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Don't buy the ivermectin hype

Nicole Karlis
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Child with face mask back at school after covid-19 quarantine and lockdown (Getty Images)

Reading, 'rithmetic and resisting COVID

Michelle Andrews - KFF Health News
The sun rose over the Duluth Harbor North Breakwater Light on Monday, July 12, 2021. Canadian wildfires have caused smoke to drift in the atmosphere and blanket the Midwest skies with haze this past weekend. This has caused magnificent red sunrises over the last few mornings. Canadian wildfires have caused smoke to drift in the atmosphere and blanket the Midwest skies with haze this past weekend. This has caused magnificent red sunrises over the last few mornings including over Lake Superior and Canal Park in Duluth on Monday, July 12, 2021. (Alex Kormann, Star Tribune via Getty Images)

Wildfire smokes brings dystopian skies

Alexandria Herr - Grist
COVID-19 new lambda variant (Getty Images/koto_feja)

Lambda prophesies COVID's mutant future

Matthew Rozsa
An Israeli medic administers a third booster jab of the covid vaccine to a member of medical teams, at the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem, on August 15, 2021. (MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images)

COVID-19 booster shots likely imminent

Nicole Karlis
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A sad fish (Getty Images)

Swimming in a sea of drug residue

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

DeSantis order lacks scientific support

Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
Protesters in front of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) building in Los Angeles, California on March 12, 2021, calling on OSHA to do more to protect workers from Farmer John's slaughterhouse where the total number of Covid-19 positive cases reached 789 as of March 11, totalling almost half the workforce of 1,837 workers. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

Unions warned against a mask rollback

Bob Hennelly
Medical syringes are seen with Pfizer company logo displayed on a screen in the background in this illustration photo taken in Poland on October 12, 2020. (Photo illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Pfizer CEO: Trust us on COVID booster

Sarah Jane Tribble - KFF Health News
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Climate change and environmental disasters (Getty Images/Roy Scott)

Is fear about climate change enough?

Kate Yoder - Grist
Microchips and climate change (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Shortages will be the new normal

Matthew Rozsa
A tree stump is engulfed in flames in the Bravo Bravo section of the Bootleg Fire on July 21, 2021 in the Fremont National Forest of Oregon. The Bootleg Fire, which started on July 6th near Beatty, Oregon, has burned over 395,000 acres and is currently 38% contained. (Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images)

Wildfires ignite mental health concerns

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
A woman depositing a plastic bottle in a recycling bin (Getty Images/Andrew Fox)

Behavioral science won't fix the climate

Peter Sutoris
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