Sitara Begum fills buckets with drinking water from a plastic water tank. Mahmud Hossain Opu for NPR hide caption
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Maria Laura Rojas, a climate activist from Bogota, at the outskirts of the city. Erika Piñeros for NPR hide caption
From a place of privilege, she speaks the truth about climate to power
Friday
Ari Blank got a comforting hand-squeeze from his mom in May as he was vaccinated against COVID-19 in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. This week, the Food and Drug Administration authorized the use of Pfizer's vaccine in even younger kids — ages 5 to 11. Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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A man wearing a face mask speaks on his phone in central Moscow on Wednesday. Yuri Kadobnov/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Dr. KJ Seung, a professor at Harvard Medical School, speaks at a September rally outside the home of the CEO of Moderna, maker of one of the two mRNA vaccines that prevent COVID-19. The fake bones are meant to represent lives lost unnecessarily to the coronavirus. Seung was part of a group of doctors demanding Moderna share vaccines — and its recipe — with low-resource countries. Jasper G. Goodman/The Harvard Crimson hide caption
Wednesday
A vendor walks through Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, in March. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption
Why Puerto Rico leads the U.S. in COVID vaccine rate — and what states can learn
Monday
Containers of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine doses, donated by the United States, arrive in Bogota, Colombia, in July. The U.S. plans to send more than a billion vaccines abroad by September 2022. Leonardo Munoz/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
What the U.S. can — and cannot — do for vaccine equity per the State Department
Friday
Lockdowns have been eased in the United Kingdom, but now there's a new variant called delta plus emerging. Will it take off the way delta did? Justin Setterfield/Getty Images hide caption
People wonder if they should keep calm and carry on in the face of delta plus variant
Thursday
Rochelle dos Santos helps her daughter with physical therapy. Many children with congenital Zika disorder are physically disabled. Ueslie Marcilino/Undark Magazine hide caption
A woman reacts as a health worker inoculates her during a vaccination drive against coronavirus inside a school in New Delhi Wednesday. India reached a milestone of administering a total of one billion doses against COVID-19. Altaf Qadri/AP hide caption
Wednesday
The Schuylkill River floods Philadelphia in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida in September. The extreme rain caught many by surprise, trapping people in basements and cars and killing dozens. Matt Rourke/AP hide caption
Tuesday
Members of a team at the Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines lab in Cape Town, South Africa. The World Health Organization has enlisted the company to replicate Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine. Tommy Trenchard for NPR hide caption
Moderna won't share its vaccine recipe. WHO has hired an African startup to crack it
An Afghan health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child in Kandahar province in 2019. Since 2018, the Taliban has blocked polio vaccination campaigns in parts of the country it controls. Now they're reportedly changed their position. Javed Tanveer/AFP via Getty Images hide caption