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Luis Alvarez/Getty Images/Stock Photo (NEW YORK) — Recently, an update to the national COVID-19 strategy was released, designed to manage the

Thir Sakdi Phu Cxm / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Black New Yorkers were hit disproportionately hard during the omicron

Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — In July 2020, as the country faced its first summer wave of

Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images (TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) — Florida’s state Senate on Thursday passed a bill that bans abortions after 15 weeks,

Elena Hung and her 7-year-old daughter, Xiomara, of Maryland. Xiomara was born with a number of medical conditions affecting her

Getty Images/Stock Photo (NEW YORK) — While much of the country is relieved to move into a new phase of the

Getty Images/Morsa Images/Stock (NEW YORK) — When the first coronavirus vaccines were shipped out across the country more than a year

Morsa Images/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — The gap in COVID-19 vaccination uptake between rural and urban Americans is continuing to widen,

Dimas Ardian/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, as hospitals became overrun,

Courtesy of Sarah Granados (NEW YORK) — A North Carolina woman who had been unable to eat solid foods for