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Hand of woman holding rapid diagnostic test for COVID-19. (Getty Images / Westend61)

Nimbus variant could start summer surge

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at the Libertarian National Convention on May 24, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

RFK's vaccine "endorsement" is phony

Amanda Marcotte
Stony Brook, N.Y.: A digital sign directs people to the drive-through coronavirus testing area which began on the main campus of Stony Brook University on March 18, 2020. Those wishing to be tested must first make an appointment. (Photo by John Paraskevas/Newsday RM vis Getty Images)

The lessons we didn't learn from COVID

Carlyn Zwarenstein
President Donald J. Trump speaks with members of the coronavirus task force during a briefing in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Thursday, April 23, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

COVID amnesia puts US at risk

Heather Digby Parton
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100 dollar banknote with medical mask (Getty Images/Anton Petrus)

Money saved our marriage from COVID

Bob Brody
A NHS vaccinator prepares to administer the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine to a member of public at a vaccination centre in London. (Dinendra Haria/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

New COVID study fuels vaccine attacks

Elizabeth Hlavinka
White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha gestures as he speaks at a daily press conference in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on April 26, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Pandemic lessons for Biden’s COVID czar

Sara Talpos - Undark
President Donald J. Trump speaks with members of the coronavirus task force during a briefing in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Thursday, April 23, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Don't forget how Trump botched COVID

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Office desk with a sandwich (Getty Images/Image Source)

Gen Z and the vanishing office lunch

Joy Saha
Long covid activists attend the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies hearing on the "Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Request for the National Institutes of Health," in Dirksen building on Thursday, May 23, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Will XEC be this winter’s COVID variant?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
A pedestrian stops at an outdoor table of books November 9, 2022 at the Argosy Book Store in New York City. (Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)

A surprise Covid survivor: indie books

Zina Kumok
Tre Cool, Billie Joe Armstrong, and Mike Dirnt of the Californian band Green Day perform at the Carling Academy Brixton on January 25, 2005 in London. (Jo Hale/Getty Images)

How "American Idiot" speaks to Gen Z

Megan Volpert
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Bronze medalist Noah Lyles of Team United States reacts after competing in the Men's 200m Final on day thirteen of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Stade de France on August 08, 2024 in Paris, France. (Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)

Noah Lyles underscores our COVID denial

Troy Farah
Sign of the World Health Organisation (WHO) at their headquarters in Geneva. (FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)

WHO lists pandemic potential pathogens

Matthew Rozsa
Virginia Opossum (Didelphis virginiana), adult, looking curiously from tree hollow. (Getty Images/Jurgen & Christine Sohns)

COVID is widespread in Virginia wildlife

Matthew Rozsa
Used surgical mask thrown on the sand of a beach (Getty Images/nito100)

Summer’s FLiRT COVID wave peaks

Nicole Karlis
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Jennifer Garner and daughter Violet Affleck are seen on May 11, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Bellocqimages/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images/Getty Images)

Violet Affleck advocates for masking

Nicole Karlis
A man in the metro wears a medical mask for protection in Istanbul on February 3, 2024. (ILKER ERAY/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Is the COVID summer wave here?

Troy Farah
Glass of spilled milk (Getty Images/Max Milne)

For the GOP, raw milk is the new masking

Ashlie D. Stevens
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media during a meeting with Prime Minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis in the Oval Office of the White House January 7, 2020 in Washington, DC. Prime Minister Mitsotakis is expected to discuss various issues with President Trump, including Greece’s relations with Turkey. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Why we all forgot Trump's real record

Heather Digby Parton
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A group of Holstein cows wait to go back to their barn after milking at Sheepscot Valley Farm, an organic dairy farm in Whitefield. (Derek Davis/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)

Second human bird flu case in Michigan

Matthew Rozsa
A medical mask is seen at Fühlinger See beach at summer heat temperature around 30 degrees Celsius in Cologne, Germany on May 18, 2022 (Ying Tang/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Climate change is incubating pandemics

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/Zach Gibson)

The truth about "Trump's virtues"

Heather Digby Parton
Neil Young performs on stage at Barclaycard Presents British Summer Time Hyde Park at Hyde Park on July 12, 2019 in London, England. (Gus Stewart/Redferns/Getty Images)

Neil Young back at Spotify after boycott

Joy Saha
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