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The Covid-19 Pandemic

With the acute phase of the Covid-19 pandemic fading even as the coronavirus persists and evolves, a new normal is taking shape around the world.

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      Lakishia Fell-Davis, a substitute teacher and parent at the school, with some of her students.
      CreditGlenna Gordon for The New York Times

      The School Where the Pandemic Never Ended

      As the nation’s schools ‘return to normal,’ teachers in an L.A. neighborhood hit hard by Covid are left to manage their students’ grief — and their own.

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    Tammy Cunningham with her son, Calum. She gave birth while hospitalized with severe Covid-19.
    CreditKaiti Sullivan for The New York Times

    Covid Worsened a Health Crisis Among Pregnant Women

    In 2021, deaths of pregnant women soared by 40 percent in the United States, according to new government figures. Here’s how one family coped after the virus threatened a pregnant mother.

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    A patient living with long Covid since her infection in March 2020 in Massachusetts. The analysis involved a total of 860,783 patients and found patients were more likely to be female.
    CreditBrian Snyder/Reuters

    Who Is Most at Risk for Long Covid?

    A new analysis summarizes the emerging picture of factors that make long-term post-Covid symptoms more likely.

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Vaccine

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    A woman receiving a fourth shot in September in Phoenix. While a Covid infection can be a matter of inconvenience for some, it can spell severe disease, hospitalization and death for older adults and immunocompromised people.
    CreditAsh Ponders for The New York Times
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    Preparing a dose of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine at a temporary site in the City Hall of Hull in northeast England.
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    Nepalese health workers prepared Covid vaccines, obtained through the Covax program, for storage in Kathmandu, Nepal, in 2021.
    CreditNarendra Shrestha/EPA, via Shutterstock
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    Experts and activists said that Moderna had for years resisted acknowledging its true debt to the government and to academic researchers.
    CreditCooper Neill for The New York Times
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    Kizzmekia Corbett was at the vanguard of the race for a vaccine against Covid-19. Above, she is in her office at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston.
    CreditKayana Szymczak for The New York Times

Maps and Trackers

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Travel

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    Sunset on Boracay’s White Beach feels lively, but some worry it will tip back into being overcrowded.
    CreditChang W. Lee/The New York Times
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    A check-in line for a China Eastern Airlines flight to Shanghai at New York’s Kennedy International Airport last week.
    CreditHiroko Masuike/The New York Times
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    Elephants are a common sight on the streets of Baan Ta Klang village, in Thailand. Here, a mahout rides his elephant past a sculpture of a mythical, multiheaded elephant in February.
    CreditUlet Ifansasti for The New York Times
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    For the past two months, travelers coming from China have been required to present a negative Covid test before entering the United States.
    CreditMark Schiefelbein/Associated Press

Economy

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    Cecilia Rouse became the first Black chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers when she was confirmed two years ago.
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    The cuts are coming as inflation remains persistently high and many other coronavirus-era programs end.
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    The Covid lab-leak theory is back.
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    President Biden’s State of the Union address touched on the economy, the war in Ukraine, and the power of democracy.
    CreditT.J. Kirkpatrick for The New York Times
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    President Biden wants to use Tuesday’s speech to make the case that government works, pointing to legislation that passed on bipartisan votes.
    CreditShawn Thew for The New York Times

Lives We've Lost

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    Stephen Wilhite, the creator of the animation format known as GIF, received a lifetime achievement honor at the Webby Awards in 2013.
    CreditJane Kratochvil/Webby Awards, via Associated Press
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    Sidney Miller II in an undated photo. His magazine, Black Radio Exclusive, examined the world of Black music and hosted an annual conference.
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    Hans Neuenfels in 2014. He was renowned for provocative interpretations of classic works.
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    The photographer and filmmaker James Bidgood in 2019. The pictures he took for men’s physique magazines were lavish fantasies full of references to mythology, adventurous lighting and props, and attractive men — sometimes in costume, sometimes in nothing.
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    Arnie Kantrowitz last year. He was an early advocate for gay rights and fairer depiction of gay people in the media.
    CreditLarry Mass