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Mutating virus variant (Getty Images/wildpixel)

The "son of omicron" is here

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
A boy arrives for the first day of school wearing a face mask (Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Is my cloth mask good enough for Omicron

Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
President Joe Biden addresses reporters at a press gaggle. (Getty Images)

Millions could lose Medicaid coverage

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
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Empty prison hallway (Getty Images)

Decarceration is public health

Eric Reinhart - Undark
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
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
Covid-19 Omicron variant (Getty Images/Andriy Onufriyenko)

Omicron partly evades vaccine immunity

Nicole Karlis
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State Capitol Building in Trenton, New Jersey, USA (Getty Images/KenKPhoto)

N.J. GOP stages dangerous COVID stunt

Bob Hennelly - InsiderNJ
Protesters hold placards during the demonstration. Anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers gathered at Indiana University's Sample Gates to protest against mandatory Covid vaccinations IU is requiring for students, staff and faculty during the upcoming fall semester. (Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Performers struggle without mask laws

Bruce Alpert - KFF Health News
Young couple with protective face masks watching the movie at the cinema and enjoying (Getty Images/MixMedia)

Is it safe to go to the movies again?

Nicole Karlis
Face mask in winter (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Winter could spur new COVID surge

Nicole Karlis
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Gun On A Table (Getty Images/Edward Olive/EyeEm)

"We have to reconceptualize suicide"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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How Big Tobacco made menthol racial

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Vaccine (Getty Images)

A universal vaccine for coronaviruses

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

Dems extend Trump-era drug policy

Igor Derysh
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People display signs during the Kentucky Freedom Rally at the capitol building on August 28, 2021 in Frankfort, Kentucky. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

Individualistic societies fail on COVID

Matthew Rozsa
People wait in line to get tested for Covid-19 at the Ann Street School Covid-19 Testing Center in Newark, New Jersey (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)

A tale of two states — and one pandemic

Bob Hennelly - InsiderNJ
Danielle Webster receiving a Covid-19 booster vaccination at Midland House, Derby | A medical health worker injects the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to a woman as they visit door-to-door to deliver the vaccines to people who live far from health facilities in Siaya, Kenya (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Joe Giddens/Brian Ongoro)

A prescription for saving democracy

Paul Rosenberg
Houston Fire Department paramedics transport a woman with breathing difficulties to a hospital on September 14, 2021 in Houston, Texas. Texas' Harris County continues to see large number of Covid-19 hospitalizations due to the Delta variant surge in the state. (John Moore/Getty Images)

Why the delta surge may be the last

Nicole Karlis
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Sick man with covid-19 symptoms in bed (Getty Images)

What to know about breakthrough COVID

Will Stone - KFF Health News
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies at a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on July 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. The committee will hear testimony about the Biden administration's ongoing plans to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic and Delta variant. (Stefani Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)

Fauci and NIH back booster shots

Sarah Jane Tribble, Arthur Allen - KFF Health News
Anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers gathered at Indiana University's Sample Gates to protest against mandatory Covid vaccinations IU is requiring for students, staff and faculty during the upcoming fall semester. (Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

26 states roll back public health powers

Lauren Weber, Anna Maria Barry-Jester - KFF Health News
Houston Fire Department EMS supervisor Michael Norwood gives oxygen to a woman with suspected Covid-19 before transporting her to a hospital for treatment on August 20, 2021 in Houston, Texas. (John Moore/Getty Images)

Long Covid can occur in the vaccinated

Nicole Karlis
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