How do you get a COVID-19 vaccine appointment? The answer varies by state. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during an infrastructure announcement at AFL-CIO on Dec. 16, 2021. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption
Don Murphy hands out free rapid COVID tests outside of Robinson Middle School in Lowell, Massachusetts. Gabrielle Emanuel/WBUR hide caption
As omicron surges, these states and cities are focused on giving out free COVID tests
People line up to get tested for COVID-19 at East Boston Neighborhood Health Center in Boston, Mass., on Monday. Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Pfizer's antiviral pill Paxlovid was authorized to treat COVID-19, by the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday. David Dee Delgado/Getty Images hide caption
Students walk on the campus of University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in Los Angeles in March 2020. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Employees of Nomi Health check in a long line of people seeking COVID-19 tests Tuesday in North Miami, Fla. The omicron variant has unleashed a fresh round of fear and uncertainty for travelers, shoppers and partygoers across the U.S. Marta Lavandier/AP hide caption
Memorials hang from the front gate of Greenwood Cemetery during an event and procession organized by Naming the Lost Memorials to remember and celebrate the lives of those killed by the COVID-19 pandemic on June 8 in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption
COVID sent last year's U.S. death rate soaring, especially among people of color
Health authorities have been urging Americans to get a booster shot six months after their second dose of the vaccine, especially now that the omicron variant is dominant in the U.S. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams announced on Tuesday he will be postponing his planned Jan.1 inauguration ceremony. Brittainy Newman/AP hide caption
Sophomore Dreshon Robinson stands outside his high school cafeteria, where the learning hub takes place. He wants to go to college and be an audio engineer. Cornell Watson for NPR hide caption
Extra learning time is helping these students catch up from COVID interruptions
Procter & Gamble recalled 32 of its dry shampoo and conditioner products, some of which are pictured here, after detecting "unexpected" levels of the carcinogen benzene in some products. U.S. Food and Drug Administration hide caption
People walk their dogs along a narrow road as the first winter frost blankets the fields in Oudeland van Strijen in the Netherlands on Tuesday. It's the shortest day of the year and official start of winter. Jeffrey Groeneweg/ANP/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Dr. Elaha Ibrahimi uses her phone as a flashlight during a power cut inside the hospital in Mirbacha Kot, Afghanistan, in October. Health care workers have continued to work without salaries, without medicine for patients and with frequent power cuts. Bram Janssen/AP hide caption
Baby Dorian Bennett arrived two months early and needed neonatal intensive care. Despite having insurance, mom Bisi Bennett and her husband faced a bill of more than $550,000 and were offered an installment payment plan of $45,843 per month for 12 months. Zack Wittman for Kaiser Health News hide caption
Fans pose below the NHL logo outside Falcon Stadium at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., in February 2020. David Zalubowski/AP hide caption
President Joe Biden speaks about the COVID-19 response and vaccinations on Tuesday in the State Dining Room of the White House. Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption
U.S. Army critical care nurse Capt. Edward Rauch Jr. leaves notes on the door of a COVID-19 patient who is on a ventilator at Beaumont Hospital in Dearborn, Mich. Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The recent COVID-19 outbreak at the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif., comes amid a new round of rising infections in California and across the country that have been fueled by the spread of the omicron variant. Patrick T. Fallon /AFP via Getty Images hide caption