The last Olympic torch relay runner for the Osaka leg concludes the event in Suita, north of Osaka, western Japan, last month. Hiro Komae/AP hide caption
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New Zealand Minister for COVID-19 Response Chris Hipkins looks on during a news conference at Parliament last month where he and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced plans for a quarantine-free "travel bubble" between New Zealand and Australia. Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images hide caption
COVID-19 patients in the emergency ward of an unidentified hospital on Monday in New Delhi. Dr. Sumit Ray, a hospital critical care chief in the city, says India's health care system is collapsing. Rebecca Conway/Getty Images hide caption
Doctor In India: Emergency Room Is So Crowded, 'It's Nearly Impossible To Walk'
Feelings of exhaustion, irritability and mental fogginess are our bodies' normal response to an abnormal year of pandemic life. Wenjin Chen/Getty Images hide caption
Linn County Emergency Manager Neva Anderson and her husband, Erik Anderson, say they've never wasted a shot, but it's getting harder to find people who want a COVID-19 vaccination. Katia Riddle/Katia Riddle hide caption
Wearing a mask and a face shield to curb the spread of the coronavirus, 10-year-old Jade Chan Puc writes in her workbook during the first day of class in Hecelchakán, Campeche state, Mexico, on April 19. On average, schools in Latin America and the Caribbean were closed longer than any in any other region, according to UNICEF. Martin Zetina/AP hide caption
A patient breathes with the help of oxygen provided at a tent installed at a gurdwara, a place of worship for Sikhs, in Ghaziabad, India, on May 2. Sajjad Hussain/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Mixing different kinds of COVID-19 vaccines might help boost immune responses, but the idea has been slow to catch on. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Tents of mountaineers are pictured Monday at the Everest Base Camp in Nepal. Prakash Mathema/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Secretary of State Antony Blinken attends a news conference with India's Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar following a bilateral meeting in London on Monday during the G-7 foreign ministers meeting. Ben Stansall/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Vivek Murthy testifies at his Senate confirmation hearing to be surgeon general on Feb. 25. Murthy tells NPR there's more work to do in convincing people, especially in rural communities, to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Caroline Brehman/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Local 'Trusted Messengers' Key To Boosting COVID Vaccinations, Surgeon General Says
People wait at an exit gate at the Kolkata Airport Terminal. International air travel to and from India has been restricted as the country battles a catastrophic COVID-19 surge. Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption
Haiti's success is not due to some innovative intervention against the virus. Most people have given up wearing masks in public on the streets of Port-au-Prince and elsewhere. And Haiti hasn't yet administered a single COVID-19 vaccine. Valerie Baeriswyl /AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Children account for more than a fifth of new U.S. coronavirus cases in states that release statistics by age, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Tang Ming Tung/Getty Images hide caption
Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, wears a protective mask during a meeting in Brussels last week. Olivier Matthys/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Elvis Presley got his polio vaccination from Dr. Harold Fuerst and Dr. Leona Baumgartner at CBS' Studio 50 in New York City on Oct. 28, 1956. The chart-topping singer took part in a March of Dimes campaign to convince teens to get vaccinated. Seymour Wally/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images hide caption
For about a year, major U.S. commercial airlines have required all passengers who are older than 2 to wear face masks on flights. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
Protesters wearing Guy Fawkes masks carry empty coffins during a national strike to protest a government proposal that would raise taxes, in Bogotá, Colombia, on Wednesday. Fernando Vergara/AP hide caption
Protesters March In Colombia Against Plan To Raise Taxes In Pandemic-Wracked Economy
Victims of COVID-19 are cremated in funeral pyres this week in New Delhi. Scientists says the real death toll and number of infections are likely much higher than what the Indian government is reporting. Jewel Samad/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A child sits on his father's shoulder in New York City's Central Park in May 2020. The COVID-19 vaccine isn't presently available to those under 16, raising questions for parents and their kids. Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images hide caption
Pediatricians Weigh In On What's Safe And Not Safe For Unvaccinated Children
To understand vaccine-induced immunity more fully, researchers are comparing antibody levels in people who received the Moderna vaccine but still got COVID-19 with levels in people who got the vaccine but didn't fall ill. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
New Blood Tests Should Show How Long A COVID-19 Vaccine Will Protect You
Tokyo Games Delivery Officer Hidemasa Nakamura holds a sample of an updated version of the playbook during a news briefing on Wednesday. Franck Robichon/Getty Images hide caption
Holmes County, Ohio, General Health District staff members (from left) Michael Derr, Jennifer Talkington and Abbie Benton prepare materials for a COVID-19 vaccine clinic this month inside St. Peter's Catholic Church in Millersburg. Anna Huntsman/WCPN hide caption