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Topic: Pandemic (page 9)

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

What comes after the omicron hump

Matthew Rozsa
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
Israeli actress Gal Gadot (MICHAEL TRAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Gadot: "Imagine" cover was in poor taste

Joy Saha
COVID-19 at-home rapid test kits are given away during a drive-thru event at the Hollywood library on December 30, 2021 in Hollywood, Florida. Broward County began distributing a limited supply of the kits to residents while supplies last. The distribution started today and runs through tomorrow at drive-thru sites outside of nine county libraries. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

How reliable are at-home COVID tests?

Nicole Karlis
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Friends drinking cocktail in a restaurant bar in summer days with protective face mask and practicing alternative greeting, during COVID-19 pandemic. (Getty Images)

Social behavior hurts pandemic response

Eyal Oren - The Conversation
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
Janice Brown hooked up to a dialysis machine in COVID-19 unit isolation room at Desert Valley Medical Group, Victorville. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

They were the pandemic’s perfect victims

Duaa Eldeib - ProPublica
COVID-19 new lambda variant | Bunny the talking Dog | Rising sea levels (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/koto_feja/freie-kreation/Instagram/@what_about_bunny)

Salon's top science stories of 2021

Matthew Rozsa
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Confused Cruz thinks Dems banned dancing

Igor Derysh
Members of the National Nurses United read the names of the 88 nurses they say have died from COVID-19 while demonstrating in Lafayette Park across from the White House May 07, 2020 in Washington, DC. The union is protesting during Nurses' Week to demand that their employers and the federal government 'provide safe workplaces by providing optimal personal protective equipment (PPE), safe staffing, presumptive eligibility for workers’ compensation benefits and more during the novel coronavirus pandemic. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The CDC caves to commerce

Bob Hennelly
A man receives a dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine 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)

Double vaxxed, double boosted?

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

Long Covid pits patients against doctors

Jack Gorman, David Scales - Undark
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Ron DeSantis and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Joe tells governors to lead COVID effort

Igor Derysh
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

De Blasio sets vaccine precedent in N.Y.

Mark Kreidler - Capital & Main
Joe Manchin and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

America got Scrooged — but there's hope

Brian Karem
A child with a mask with a Christmas hat decorates the Christmas tree in his house (Simona Granati - Corbis/Getty Images)

Omicron's risk to kids

Nicole Karlis
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Two vaccine syringes (Getty Images/golibtolibov)

Who exactly are the vaccine holdouts?

Anthony DiMaggio
Coronavirus COVID-19 (Getty Images)

How deadly is omicron?

Nicole Karlis
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
Tom Malinowski, Joe Manchin and Josh Gottheimer (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

As a third wave hits, politicians profit

Bob Hennelly - InsiderNJ
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Anti-vaccine mandate protesters demonstrate, on August 24, 2021, outside of the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, to support the Vaccine Choice and Anti-Discrimination Act, a bill that would prohibit mandatory vaccinations, and vaccination status disclosures. (STEPHEN ZENNER/AFP via Getty Images)

Anti-vaxxers co-opt "my body, my choice"

Nathan Nobis
A Covid-19 infected patient receiving medical oxygen for breathing comfortably seen inside a Covid care center of the Commonwealth Games (CWG) villages temporarily converted into a Covid-19 care facility. (Naveen Sharma/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

A view from the COVID vortex

Jenny Gold - KFF Health News
Jen Psaki and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Biden in crisis: Getting late to fix it

Brian Karem
Children staying at home during COVIG-19 pandemic (Getty Images/Imgorthand)

My husband intentionally got COVID

Nicole Karlis
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