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Swetlana Rot prepares water samples in a laboratory of the Saxony-Anhalt State Office for Environmental Protection in Halle/Saale. The scientists here examine wastewater for the coronavirus pathogen. (Hendrik Schmidt/picture alliance via Getty Images)

COVID wastewater data is being distorted

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Kim Nguyen, pharmacist, prepares to give a Moderna Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine at CVS, 12550 Louetta Rd., Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, in Cypress, Texas. (Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

Hiccups reported in COVID vax rollout

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Nurse standing by elderly woman sitting on wheelchair (Getty Images/Morsa Images)

Nursing homes still waiting for vaccines

Jordan Rau, Tony Leys - KFF Health News
This Scanning Electron Micrograph Sem Depicts A Flagellated Vibrio Vulnificus Bacterium; Mag. 13184X. (BSIP/UIG Via Getty Images)

Flesh-eating bacteria infections rising

Bill Sullivan - The Conversation
Raccoon sitting on a tree (Getty Images/Enn Li Photography)

How to make tasty vaccines for raccoons

Emily Mullin - Undark
Headstones and American flags are seen at the Arlington National Cemetery, United States military cemetery in Virginia, United States on May 29, 2023. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Is America a death cult?

Troy Farah
Colony of Little Brown Bats (Getty Images/Joe McDonald)

Prevent the next pandemic. Avoid bats

Steve Osofsky, Susan Lieberman - Undark
Linda Noneo's work as a community health representative for her tribe in Nevada is focused on providing transportation to health care appointments for Fallon Paiute-Shoshone members. (JAZMIN OROZCO RODRIGUEZ/KFF HEALTH NEWS)

Nevada paying tribal workers better

Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez - KFF Health News
Handguns that were swapped for gift cards during a Los Angeles Police Department sponsored gun buyback event in Los Angeles, California on December 13, 2014. (MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images)

Gun violence is a public health crisis

Dan Falk - Undark
Mutating virus variant (Getty Images/wildpixel)

Highly-mutated Covid strain identified

Elizabeth Hlavinka
(Getty/Stuart Ritchie)

Opioid settlement cash going to police

Elizabeth Hlavinka
The parking lot is nearly deserted at Forest Plaza on March 24, 2020 in Rockford, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Why is America going backward?

Mike Lofgren
Lone Star Tick (Amblyomma americanum) on human skin (Getty Images/epantha)

A mysterious tick-related meat allergy

Elizabeth Hlavinka
'The London Bathing Season,' from Punch, or the London Charivari, June 18, 1859. (The Cartoon Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Climate change could make a Great Stink

Matthew Rozsa
An Aedes Aegypti mosquito (Afp/getty Images)

Mosquitos bringing malaria north

Mary Katherine Wildeman - Grist
PCR testing site for COVID-19 variants at a new test facility at Tom Bradley International Terminal (Terminal B) that health officials hope will help them spot new variants that may emerge from passengers arriving from other countries at Los Angeles International Airport on Monday, Jan. 2, 2023 in Los Angeles, CA. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

The CDC has stopped tracking COVID cases

Nicole Karlis
A woman wearing a mask walks in the crowd (Arne Dedert/picture alliance via Getty Images)

All my COVID precautions were in vain

Maggie Mills
Garbage, pollution (Getty Images)

Oregon bans PFAS in food containers

Joseph Winters - Grist
Man standing alone in space (Getty Images/Yagi Studio)

Why loneliness is as deadly as smoking

Matthew Rozsa
Attendees listen during the 22nd session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, focusing on "Indigenous Peoples, human health, planetary and territorial health and climate change: a rights-based approach" at the United Nations headquarters in New York City on April 20, 2023. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Indigenous health tied to environment

Pauly Denetclaw - Grist
A protester holds up a placard demanding research into Long Covid-19 during the demonstration. (Martin Pope/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Is long COVID a ticking time bomb?

Philip Finkelstein
A stop sign in the Delaware River at Penn Treaty Park in Philadelphia, Pa., on March 26, 2023. Water in Philadelphia has been deemed unsafe to drink following a chemical spill in the Delaware River, leading to water bottles being sold out across the city. (Thomas Hengge/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

The growing list of chemical accidents

Max Graham - Grist
Members of P.A.I.N. (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now) and Truth Pharm staged a protest on September 12, 2019 outside Purdue Pharma headquarters in Stamford, over their recent controversial opioid settlement. Participants dropped hundreds prescription bottles of OxyContin while holding tombstones with the names of opioids casualties and banners reading "Shame on Sackler" and "200 Dead Each Day". (Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Biden quiet on opioid settlements

Aneri Pattani - KFF Health News
Volunteers hand out food during an aid distribution event. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Older Californians dying of malnutrition

Phillip Reese - KFF Health News
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