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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
Lab Grown Snowflakes (Photo illustration by Salon/Kenneth Libbrecht)

How to grow "designer" snowflakes

Nicole Karlis
PENGUIN ON ICEBERG IN THE ANTARCTICA (Getty Images)

How the coronavirus got to Antarctica

Nicole Karlis
Nurse Practitioner Terri Welch administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to a patient at the Haxby and Wigginton Group Medical Practice in Haxby, northern England on December 22, 2020. (LINDSEY PARNABY/AFP via Getty Images)

Vaccine allergic reactions, explained

Nicole Karlis
(Getty Images)

A weird radio signal from a nearby star

Matthew Rozsa
surgical mask patterned with a world map (Getty Images)

The Earth is not healing

Matthew Rozsa
Coronavirus COVID-19 spores (Getty Images)

What the new mutation means

Matthew Rozsa
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
(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
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
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