A pop-up clinic inside Los Angeles International Airport offered free vaccinations and boosters for holiday travelers last December. A new round of vaccinations may be needed before next winter. FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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This week, the Food and Drug Administration met with outside advisers to talk about the next steps in formulating a COVID-19 vaccination plan. Dinendra Haria/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption
Emily Wales, interim CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Plains Votes, speaks to a group of abortion rights advocates outside the state Capitol in Oklahoma City on Tuesday. The Oklahoma House gave final legislative approval to a bill that would make performing an abortion a felony. Sean Murphy/AP hide caption
Plastic debris is washed up at Depoe Bay, Ore., on Jan. 19, 2020. Andrew Selsky/AP hide caption
Anti-abortion activist Lauren Handy speaks during a news conference in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. The anti-abortion group Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising says it took 115 fetuses from a medical waste truck. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP hide caption
Neighborhoods are separated by barriers as part of lockdown measures in Shanghai to prevent the spread of the highly transmissible omicron variant. Hector Retamal /AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Maurice Miller lies in bed in his room at a nursing home in Takoma Park, Md., on Thursday. The Biden administration is planning to establish a federal minimum staffing requirement for nursing homes as part of a broader push to improve care for seniors and people with disabilities. Eric Lee for NPR hide caption
Nursing home residents suffer from staffing shortages, but the jobs are hard to fill
Despite multiple court orders, their landlord, Douglas Ritter, refuses to restore water service to the apartment where Angel Garcia (above) and his family live. Ritter padlocked the entrance to the basement to prevent anyone from restoring water. He believes his rights to eviction are being denied. Jillian Forstadt/WSKG hide caption
NY landlords can't evict while tenants wait for aid; some try other ways to clear property
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NY landlords can't evict while tenants wait for aid; some try other ways to clear property
Hundreds of workers at Howard University Hospital say they are planning a one-day strike on April 11 to protest low paying wages. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption
Pieter Van Ry, director of the South Platte Renew wastewater treatment facility in Englewood, Colo., stands surrounded by solid-waste separators. Hart Van Denburg/Colorado Public Radio hide caption
Colorado is moving toward statewide coverage of wastewater surveillance
Suzanne and Jim Rybak, inside the craft room where their son, Jameson, would encourage Suzanne to make colorful beach bags, received a $4,928 medical bill months after it was supposedly resolved. By Gavin McIntyre/Kaiser Health News hide caption
To study emotions in animals, scientists need to look beneath feelings to the brain states that produce certain behaviors. Fran Laurendeau/RooM RF/Getty Images hide caption
In jumpy flies and fiery mice, scientists see the roots of human emotions
Thousands rallied, spoke, and marched for women's reproductive rights in Portland, Oregon on October 2, 2021. John Rudoff/Sipa USA via Reuters hide caption
Abortion rights advocates gather outside the Oklahoma Capitol on Tuesday in Oklahoma City to protest several anti-abortion bills being considered by the GOP-led Legislature. Sean Murphy/AP hide caption
South African actress Khanyi Mbau, one of the stars of Netflix's new original reality show set in Africa, Young, Famous & African. Mosa Hlophe/Netflix hide caption
A family enters a U.S. Air Force plane in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 24, 2021. The evacuation was part of a U.S. effort to relocate Afghans to safety in the wake of the Taliban siege. But many families were separated in the process — and reuniting them has proven to be a challenge. Master Sgt. Donald R. Allen/U.S. Air Forces Europe-Africa via Getty Images hide caption
The Colorado State Capitol in Denver is pictured here in January. This week, Gov. Jared Polis signed a law enshrining the right to abortion in state law. David Zalubowski/AP hide caption
Vice President Harris, President Biden and former President Barack Obama arrive to deliver remarks on the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid in the East Room of the White House on Tuesday. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Residents wearing face masks walk by a masked security watch over a barricaded Galaxy Soho commercial office building locked down for health monitoring following a COVID-19 case detected in the area Tuesday in Beijing. China has sent more than 10,000 health workers from across the country to Shanghai, including 2,000 military medical staff. Andy Wong/AP hide caption
Bethany Gates, a certified professional midwife in Iowa, examines her client, Mandy King. King has three children and this will be her first home birth. Natalie Krebs/Side Effects Public Media hide caption
As home births rise in popularity, some midwives operate in a legal gray area
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The conviction of RaDonda Vaught in an accidental injection death has sparked fear and outrage among many nurses, who have been faced with long hours, mounting responsibilites and staffing shortages. Nicole Hester/AP hide caption
US President Joe Biden receives a second booster shot of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine a day after the US authorized a fourth dose of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna Covid-19 vaccines for people 50 and older NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The Food and Drug Administration will meet with outside advisers to talk about the next steps in formulating a COVID-19 vaccination plan. Dinendra Haria/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption