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Sick man with covid-19 symptoms in bed (Getty Images)

What to know about breakthrough COVID

Will Stone - KFF Health News
A bustling hallway in the emergency department at Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital due to coronavirus (COVID-19) patients in Oceanside, New York (Jeffrey Basinger/Newsday via Getty Images)

New infections are driving variants

Vaughn Cooper, Lee Harrison - The Conversation
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies at a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on July 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. The committee will hear testimony about the Biden administration's ongoing plans to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic and Delta variant. (Stefani Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)

Fauci and NIH back booster shots

Sarah Jane Tribble, Arthur Allen - KFF Health News
Mark Zuckerberg (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Online engagement drives misinformation

Filippo Menczer - The Conversation
Fresh bread (Getty Images/Kseniya Ovchinnikova)

5 expert tips for baking with rye flour

Ashlie D. Stevens
Artist conception of the James Webb Space Telescope. (NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez)

The Webb Telescope: Hubble on steroids

Marcia Rieke - The Conversation
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Tobias Hase/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Why everyone is mad at Mark Zuckerberg

Trish Rooney
Usher, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Julianne Hough were named as co-hosts of "The Activist" (Photo illustration by Salon/CBS)

"The Activist" reality show implosion

Kylie Cheung
President Joe Biden speaks about the American Rescue Plan in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, on February 22, 2021. (Getty Images)

Misinformation kills tax-the-rich effort

Brett Bachman
Doctor giving first aid bandage after vaccination to senior woman (Jasmin Merdan/Getty Images)

Why you can still trust medicine

Venktesh Ramnath - The Conversation
Cars sit abandoned on the flooded Major Deegan Expressway in the Bronx following a night of heavy wind and rain from the remnants of Hurricane Ida on September 02, 2021 in New York City. Numerous people were killed in New York and tornadoes did heavy damage to parts of New Jersey as the evening storm caught many off guard with the severity of its rain and wind and flooding. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Why Hurricane Ida broke rainfall records

Russ Schumacher - The Conversation
Nicki Minaj attends The 2019 Met Gala Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2019 in New York City. (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)

Nicki Minaj wins Fox with anti-vax tweet

Jon Skolnik
(Melina Hammer / Food52)

Fun facts about peaches to tell friends

Melina Hammer - Food52
Luke Allan, 13, closes his eyes as he gets a Covid-19 vaccination. The campaign to immunize America's 17 million adolescents aged 12-to-15 kicked off in full force on May 13, a key part of President Joe Biden's strategy to push the country close to herd immunity. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Can teens get vax against parent's will?

Brian Dean Abramson - The Conversation
Doctor put label COVID-19 vaccine sticker on vaccination card (Getty Images)

Is it a crime to forge a vaccine card?

Christopher Robertson, Wesley Oliver - The Conversation
Tom Daley of Great Britain knits during the preliminary round of the men's 3m springboard at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre on day ten of the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. (Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile via Getty Images)

Pandemic hobbies are good for the brain

Ruth Kogen Goodwin
A collapsed bridge in Mexico Beach, Florida on October 12, 2018, two days after Hurricane Michael struck. (Charlotte Kesl for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The media gets climate change right

Kate Yoder - Grist
Vials and a medical syringe seen displayed in front of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United States logo. FDA finds the COVID-19 vaccine. (Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Don't fear "unapproved" medicine

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Trash in the ocean water (Getty Images/Juan Camilo Bernal)

Environmental treaties US should ratify

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
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
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
Woman reading in bed (Getty Images/Luis Alvarez)

The reason reading makes you sleepy

Ellen Gutoskey - Mental Floss
Smoke from Southern California wildfires drifts through the L.A. Basin, obscuring downtown skyscrapers in a view from a closed Griffith Observatory on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020 in Los Angeles, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Adam Mahoney
Marleen Puzak of Denver celebrates the 2014 Denver Pridefest with her French Bulldog "Beignet" at Civic Center Park. Denver, Colorado. (Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post via Getty Images))

When are the dog days of summer?

Kara Kovalchik - Mental Floss
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