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Asymptomatic COVID-19 cases and at-home test results are a few reasons why experts think the current case numbers may be big underestimations.
 

For those who are eligible, is a second booster worth it? And are those who are ineligible missing out—especially during a fifth COVID wave, with yet another predicted by the White House this fall and winter?
 

Understanding the death toll — who makes up the one million and how the country failed them — is essential as the pandemic continues.
 

More than $170 billion in Covid-19 relief funds the federal government allotted to struggling hospitals during the pandemic helped healthcare facilities stay afloat by offsetting major financial losses due to the coronavirus, a new study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found.
 

President Joe Biden is set to address world leaders at a virtual summit on ways to combat the pandemic as the U.S. reaches the long-dreaded milestone.

As the nation approaches a grim milestone, public and political will to do much about the disease has faded. But absent health measures, the devastation could have been far worse.
 

COVID-19 has surpassed the U.S. death toll of the 1918 influenza outbreak by a third, and it’s still killing hundreds each day.
 

A cache of more than 1.4 million newly released records exposes the inner workings of the nation’s largest opioid manufacturer.

COVID-19 cases continue to pile up in Maryland and the state’s positivity rate hovers above 6%. But even as cases rise, the risk of serious illness remains low.
Shaun Truelove and Niljanjan Chatterjee are featured.

Rising COVID-19 case numbers and hospitalizations likely mean we're in a new phase of the pandemic. And the number of Americans dying from COVID-19 is also anticipated to grow, although the surge in the short term is not expected to look like previous waves.
David Dowdy and Priya Duggal are quoted. 

The mRNA COVID-19 vaccines available in the United States work. But how well they work, by what metrics and for whom … that’s all unfortunately in flux.
 

The past two pandemic summers saw a spike in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and death, but this season may be different. While health experts expect cases to rise, they don't think there will be a wave as devastating as the previous two summers or the recent omicron surge.