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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)

How Trump made nursing homes vulnerable

Jillian S. Ambroz - DCReport
This creative image taken in a studio in Paris on November 16, 2020, showing a syringe and a vaccine vial with the reproducted logo of a US biotech firm Moderna (JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images)

Moderna vaccine shows promise

Nicole Karlis
White House coronavirus adviser Dr. Scott Atlas, speaks during a TV interview with OAN on October 12, 2020 in Washington, DC (Oliver Contreras/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump COVID adviser riles Michiganders

Matthew Rozsa
U.S. Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA) speaks during a rally at Howard University May 13, 2019 in Washington, DC. The Sunrise Movement held an event for the final stop of the "Road to a Green New Deal" tour to "explore what the pain of the climate crisis looks like in D.C. and for the country and what the promise of the Green New Deal means." (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Youth activists push for climate action

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
(Getty/Justin Sullivan)

When objects become extensions of you

Michael J. Spivey - MIT Press Reader

Mass Incarceration and Covid-19

Rod McCullom - Undark
Joe Biden (Getty Images)

Joe Biden is the PTSD president we need

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(Getty/Alex Wong)

Trump expanded "the global gag rule"

Sarah Varney - KFF Health News
Presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks during a Voter Mobilization event at Riverside High School in Durham, North Carolina on October 18, 2020. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

How Biden can push companies on climate

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
Harvard University (Darren McCollester/Newsmakers/Getty Images)

Stanford, Harvard on COVID strategy

Mark Kreidler - KFF Health News
President-elect Joe Biden waves to supporters as he leaves the Queen theater after receiving a briefing from the transition COVID-19 advisory board on November 09, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. Mr. Biden addressed the media earlier in the day about his response to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Tackling COVID means finding our empathy

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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)

COVID vaccine bought by rich nations

Julia Conley - Common Dreams
A patient infected by the covid-19 caused by the novel coronavirus receives treatment at the intensive care unit of a hospital in the southwestern Tunisian town of Gabes on August 26, 2020, as cases of infection surge there. (FETHI BELAID/AFP via Getty Images)

Will COVID evolve to be less deadly?

Wendy Orent - Undark
Blood Vessel concept illustration (Getty Images)

Is COVID a disease of the blood vessels?

Will Stone - KFF Health News
A needle is placed in the blood and plasma donation centre of the Institute for Transfusion Medicine Suhl. The Minister of Health has called on the Thuringians to donate blood. With the return of hospitals to regular operations, the need is also increasing again, she said. (Martin Schutt/picture alliance via Getty Images)

COVID vaccine will still come with cost

JoNel Aleccia, Liz Szabo - KFF Health News
(Getty/Joe Raedle)

ACA heads to Supreme Court again

Julie Rovner - KFF Health News
Joe Biden (Getty/Salon)

Biden won — can he save the planet?

Shannon Osaka - Grist
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)

What Pfizer's vaccine announcement means

Matthew Rozsa
Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Scientists relieved at Trump's loss

Matthew Rozsa
Sarah Pallin, Donald Trump (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst/Brian Snyder/Shannon Stapleton/Photo montage by Salon)

7 environmental takeaways from election

John R. Platt - The Revelator
Gas bubbling up from the ocean floor (Getty Images)

Mining 3000 leagues under the sea

Ashley Marranzino - Massive Science
People celebrate at Times Square in New York after Joe Biden was declared winner of the 2020 presidential election on November 7, 2020. (KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)

The classification of humankind

Thomas Moynihan - MIT Press Reader
"Portrait Of Dr. Gachet With Pipe" by Vincent van Gogh | Radial cross-section MRI cranial scan (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

What does "depression" mean anyway?

Matthew Rozsa
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) personnel keep a vigil near India-Bangladesh fencing border during a patrol ahead of India's 70th Republic Day celebration at Lankamura village, on the outskirts of Agartala, the capital of northeastern state of Tripura on January 24, 2019. (ARINDAM DEY/AFP via Getty Images)

Border walls as a psychological weapon

Jessica Wapner
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