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Topic: Omicron (page 2)

People wait in line to be tested for COVID-19 at Union Station on January 7, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. A free distribution of COVID rapid test kits for those who received vaccination shots or booster shots was also held nearby in Union Station. Thirty new deaths and over 37,000 new cases of COVID-19 were reported by Los Angeles County amid the continued spread of the Omicron variant. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

America's new endless war: COVID

Lucian K. Truscott IV
A young girl sick in bed (Sac C Wat'hn Buy Thna Thwi Phl / EyeEm / Getty Images)

How omicron is affecting our kids

Nicole Karlis
White House press secretary Jen Psaki (Getty Images)

Psaki smacks down Doocy

Brad Reed - Raw Story
President Joe Biden addresses reporters at a press gaggle. (Getty Images)

Millions could lose Medicaid coverage

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
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A health worker fills up a syringe with a vaccines dose against COVID-19 as people queue at the Kya Sands informal settlement to be vaccinated by the Witkoppen clinic in Johannesburg on December 8, 2021. - Anti-Covid vaccines may lose effectiveness against Omicron, but one more dose could remedy this. Initial elements, notably given by the Pfizer laboratory, shed light on the capacity of the new variant to resist vaccination. Omicron is "probably not sufficiently neutralized after two doses", admitted Wednesday the groups Pfizer and BioNTech, whose anti-Covid vaccine is given in two injections. (EMMANUEL CROSET/AFP via Getty Images)

Omicron is dying fast in South Africa

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

Omicron's weird, ominous evolution

Matthew Rozsa
Triage tents built to alleviate overcrowding in the emergency room and keep separate non-coronavirus (COVID-19) patients at Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital in Oceanside, New York. (Jeffrey Basinger/Newsday via Getty Images)

Omicron's odd hospitalization pattern

Nicole Karlis
A health worker takes a swab sample from a woman at a rapid coronavirus testing station (STR/AFP via Getty Images)

US breaks single-day case record

Matthew Rozsa
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A booster dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine is drawn up in a vaccination clinic set up at St Columba's Church in Sheffield on December 15, 2021 as the UK steps up the country's booster drive to fight a "tidal wave" of Omicron. - The country's medical advisers have raised the Covid Alert Level due to a "rapid increase" in infection from the variant. (OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Boosters seem to stop omicron

Matthew Rozsa
Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump and Kyle Rittenhouse (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The conservative urge to be a victim

Sophia A. McClennen
Sick girl lying on bed in ICU during COVID-19 (Getty Images/Morsa Images)

Omicron ups pediatric hospitalizations

Julia Conley - Common Dreams
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

De Blasio sets vaccine precedent in N.Y.

Mark Kreidler - Capital & Main
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A health worker takes a swab sample from a woman at a COVID-19 testing center (Pedro Fiuza/Xinhua via Getty Images)

Why omicron may mark the pandemic's end

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

America got Scrooged — but there's hope

Brian Karem
Coronavirus COVID-19 (Getty Images)

How deadly is omicron?

Nicole Karlis
Washington state Sen. Doug Erickson. (Washington state Legislature)

Another anti-vax lawmaker dies of COVID

John Wright - Raw Story
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Coronavirus, COVID-19 (Getty Images/DrPixel)

How omicron will spread across America

Matthew Rozsa
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
Scientists with surgical gloves holds two different Coronavirus of different color in the hand (Getty Images/Aitor Diago)

How contagious is omicron?

Suresh V. Kuchipudi - The Conversation
Doctor holding a COVID-19 vaccine shot (Getty Images/franckreporter)

Does omicron mean we need a new vaccine?

Nicole Karlis
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Model of Human Coronavirus, fractured (Getty Images/Alexandr Gnezdilov Light Painting)

What you need to know about omicron

Louis Jacobson - KFF Health News
Ronny Jackson (Getty Images/Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Omicron is latest GOP conspiracy theory

Alex Henderson - Alternet
Joe Biden and COVID-19 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

GOP sees opportunity in Omicron variant

Heather Digby Parton
Emergency Room nurses and EMTs tend to patients in hallways at the Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital in Houston, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Rich countries blamed for Omicron

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
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