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Topic: Omicron

Syringes with Moderna's COVID vaccine are prepared at the vaccination center at Brill. (Sina Schuldt/picture alliance via Getty Images)

New COVID vaccines approved early

Matthew Rozsa
A covid-19 vaccine is seen with the Novavax logo in the background. (Photo Illustration by Nikos Pekiaridis/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Novavax COVID-19 vaccine approved

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Malik Jaffer, lead nurse, prepares a syringe with a Covid-19 vaccine, at the Peoples Congregational United Church of Christ, the site of the Ward 4 DC Covid Center, in Washington, D.C. on March 31, 2023. (Eric Lee for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

We can't keep up with COVID's mutations

Troy Farah
A man reads a book while waiting on line at a mobile Covid-19 test site. (BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP via Getty Images)

Here's why you're still getting COVID

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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A deer stag, dog, rat and mink looking at COVID-19 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

COVID's worrying back-and-forth spread

Troy Farah
Coronavirus mutations, concept (Getty images/VICTOR HABBICK VISIONS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

How variant XBB.1.5 took over the U.S.

Troy Farah
Conceptual paper illustration of coronavirus in a lab (Getty Images/Eugene Mymrin)

"Variant soup" could drive COVID surge

Troy Farah
A health worker wearing gloves holding a test sample tubes labeled 'COVID-19 Omicron' (Getty Images/David Talukdar)

Half of omicron infections asymptomatic

Matthew Rozsa
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A Walmart worker shows she tested negative after using one of the new government-issued COVID-19 Antigen Rapid test kits she received to take a self-test while at home on February 8, 2022 in Provo, Utah. The test kits are arriving as COVID positive test results are starting to fall in many states. (George Frey/Getty Images)

What if the next wave is invisible?

Nicole Karlis
A CVS pharmacist gives the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to a resident at the Emerald Court senior living community in Anaheim, CA (Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

FDA approves second shot for 50+

Nicole Karlis
Family in protective face masks in airport during COVID-19 pandemic (Getty Images/ArtMarie)

Think the pandemic is over? Wake up

Heather Digby Parton
Side view with focus on background of woman in late 50s traveling with teenage daughter and squeezing sanitizer into her hand while flying in time of COVID-19. (Getty Images/xavierarnau)

Omicron changes the risk of air travel

Nicole Karlis
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Covid packs far less punch in Vermont

Sarah Varney - KFF Health News
COVID-19 home rapid test kits are seen on a shelf at a Walmart Neighborhood Market in Orlando, Florida. Walmart and Kroger are raising the price for the hard-to-find BinaxNOW rapid tests after the directive from the White House to sell them at cost has expired. Test kits that were formerly sold for $14 will now retail for $19.88 at Walmart and $23.99 at Kroger. (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Omicron strains test kit sharing

Katheryn Houghton - KFF Health News
Nurses take care of a patient infected with the Covid-19 at the intensive care unit of the Timone hospital, in Marseille, southern France on January 5, 2022. (NICOLAS TUCAT/AFP via Getty Images)

"Mild" omicron isn't so mild after all

Nicole Karlis
Clinical support technician Douglas Condie extracts viruses from swab samples so that the genetic structure of a virus can be analysed and identified in the coronavirus testing laboratory at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, on February 19, 2020 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Jane Barlow - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Omicron now most contagious virus ever

Matthew Rozsa, Nicole Karlis
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Mutating virus variant (Getty Images/wildpixel)

The "son of omicron" is here

Matthew Rozsa
A health worker prepares to administers a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine (Varuth Pongsapipatt/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Do face shields do anything?

Nicole Karlis
Laboratory assistant director Stella Atewe analyses chemistry profiles at the Lagos State Isolation Centre in Yaba, Lagos, on January 22, 2021. - The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Nigeria is increasing rapidly following daily reports by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) even as Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, accounted for the highest number of cases in the country. (PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP via Getty Images)

Why COVID cases are so low in Africa

Nicole Karlis
Two vaccine syringes (Getty Images/golibtolibov)

CORBEVAX: a pandemic game changer?

Maureen Ferran - The Conversation
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Covid-19 Omicron variant (Getty Images/Andriy Onufriyenko)

Will omicron mutate?

Nicole Karlis
A medical assistant prepares syringes with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against Covid-19 at the Humboldt Forum museum during the Omicron wave of the coronavirus pandemic on January 18, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Four doses not enough to stop omicron

Matthew Rozsa
Scientist pipetting a sample of a new drug formula into a vial during a clinical trial with the infectious disease on the computer screen. (Getty Images)

Genomic surveillance in the COVID era

Alexander Sundermann, Lee Harrison - The Conversation
Child getting vaccinated (Getty Images/vgajic)

Effort to vaccinate children stalls

Rachana Pradhan, Hannah Recht - KFF Health News
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