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A smartphone's Lyft app displays a message motivating users to vote yes on Proposition 22 in Oakland, California on October 9, 2020. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

People aren't keen on COVID tracing apps

Rae Ellen Bichell - KFF Health News
A medical syringe and vials in front of the AstraZeneca British biopharmaceutical company logo are seen in this creative photo taken on 18 November 2020. (STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Oxford vaccine clears crucial hurdle

Matthew Rozsa
Jay Bhattacharya on Tucker Carlson Tonight (Fox News)

The anti-lockdown doc conservatives love

Matthew Rozsa
An anti-mask protestor holds up a sign in front of the Ohio Statehouse during a right-wing protest "Stand For America Against Terrorists and Tyrants" at State Capitol on July 18, 2020 in Columbus, Ohio. - Protestors descended on Columbus, Ohio for a planned anti-mask rally in response to local laws requiring people to wear a mask in many Ohio cities. (JEFF DEAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Are Americans too selfish to wear masks?

Nicole Karlis
MARCH 30: U.S. President Donald Trump takes a new COVID-19 test kit developed by Abbott Labs out of its box during the daily coronavirus briefing at the Rose Garden of the White House on March 30, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Rapid antigen testing is a mess

Lisa Song - ProPublica
A health care worker holds an injection syringe of the phase 3 vaccine trial, developed against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic by the U.S. Pfizer and German BioNTech company, at the Ankara University Ibni Sina Hospital in Ankara, Turkey on October 27, 2020. (Dogukan Keskinkilic/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

The 1 big difference between 2 vaccines

Matthew Rozsa
US President Donald Trump and Supreme Court Justice John Roberts (Getty Images/Salon)

Red states argue they were harmed by ACA

Phil Galewitz - KFF Health News
Kevin McCarthy (Getty/Jim Watson)

These Republicans care about climate

Zoya Teirstein - 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)

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
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