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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
(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
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
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
Jo Karabasz says she’s handled a lot in her 58 years of life, but when it comes to her dialysis, she needs things to go smoothly. “Just don’t fuss with me,” she said. (Larry C. Price)

Dialysis is big business. Is it rigged?

Carrie Arnold - Undark
Doing a COVID test in full PPE wear at a senior's home (Getty Images)

Should hospitals reuse medical supplies?

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Highway to Milky Way (Juan Maria Coy Vergara/Getty Images)

Space travel via new celestial autobahn?

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

It's time to appeal to fear of COVID

Elisabeth Rosenthal - KFF Health News
Dr. Jason Smith displays his bandage after being administered 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)

Who gets vaccinated next?

Nicole Karlis
President- elect Joe Biden (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Zoya Teirstein
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)

The COVID vaccine distribution process

Bahar Aliakbarian - The Conversation
Dieting Items In Orange (Getty Images)

Stop thinsplaining to obese people

Matthew Rozsa
Harvard University (Getty/Pgiam)

Colleges face another season of red ink

Mark Kreidler - KFF Health News
The 11-Jupiter-mass exoplanet called HD 106906 b, shown in this artist's illustration, occupies an unlikely orbit around a double star 336 light-years away. It may be offering clues to something that might be much closer to home: a hypothesized distant member of our solar system dubbed "Planet Nine." This is the first time that astronomers have been able to measure the motion of a massive Jupiter-like planet that is orbiting very far away from its host stars and visible debris disk. ( NASA/M. Kornmesser/ESA/Hubble)

We just met Planet Nine's twin

Nicole Karlis
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