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Topic: Omicron Variant

A doctor with the Saxony-Anhalt Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, takes a swab from a patient at the fever outpatient clinic in Halle/Saale. (Hendrik Schmidt/picture alliance via Getty Images)

The next pandemic is of long COVID

Liz Szabo - KFF Health News
A doctor with the Saxony-Anhalt Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, takes a swab from a patient at the fever outpatient clinic in Halle/Saale. (Hendrik Schmidt/picture alliance via Getty Images)

How many times can you get COVID?

Nicole Karlis
A test sample tube labeled 'COVID-19 Omicron variant' (Getty Images/David Talukdar)

What comes after the omicron hump

Matthew Rozsa
Healthcare workers conduct tests at a drive-thru COVID-19 testing site at the Dan Paul Plaza on December 29, 2021 in Miami, Florida. In response to the increasing demand for COVID-19 tests, Miami-Dade County opened two new testing sites and expanding hours at the Zoo Miami testing location. The Zoo Miami testing site is now open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Why omicron has a lower mortality rate

Matthew Rozsa
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Digital generated image of different variants of COVID-19 cells (Getty Images/Andriy Onufriyenko)

Omicron's weird, ominous evolution

Matthew Rozsa
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)

Inside a hospital during a COVID surge

Matthew Wynia - The Conversation
Joe Biden | Corinavirus (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Biden's historic omicron address

Matthew Rozsa
Transmission electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, isolated from a patient. Image captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. (IMAGE POINT FR/NIH/NIAID/BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Omicron's perplexing origin story

Matthew Rozsa
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Close up of a Pfizer booster vaccine on the day that the vaccination campaign with Pfizer's third booster shot has started on October 6, 2021 in Utrecht, Netherlands. (Patrick van Katwijk/BSR Agency/Getty Images)

Phew: Third shot protects from omicron

Matthew Rozsa
Covid-19 Omicron variant (Getty Images/Andriy Onufriyenko)

Omicron partly evades vaccine immunity

Nicole Karlis
Covid-19 Omicron variant (Getty Images/Andriy Onufriyenko)

The CDC says omicron is in the US

Matthew Rozsa
Coronavirus, COVID-19 spores | A member of a flight crew walks through the arrivals area at Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport on November 26, 2021 in London, England. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

New data on omicron's severity

Nicole Karlis
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Ted Cruz, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Ron DeSantis (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

GOP now bribing people to spread COVID

Amanda Marcotte
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