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COVID-19 wastewater efforts confront long-term questions - Roll Call Public health experts hope the technology will help monitor threats beyond COVID-19 — like opioids and the flu. Roll Call

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COVID pandemic exposed inequities involving age, race, political affiliation The United States has hit a grim milestone: 1 million COVID-19 deaths. During the past two years the virus has posed a deadly risk, but it hasn’t affected every person the same way. The pandemic has highlighted inequalities that have already existed -- and exposed new disparities between age, race and political affiliation. Yahoo

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Covid cases are surging again. Why hospitalizations may not. A lower rate of severe illness in some states may reflect high vaccination rates, the prevalence of testing and the use of antiviral drugs, experts say. NBC News

Covid-19 cases are surging yet again in the United States, but unlike previous waves, a substantial rise in hospitalizations and deaths isn't following yet.

This is how many lives could have been saved with COVID vaccinations in each state A large share of the nearly 1 million people who died of COVID in the U.S. may have lived if they'd gotten vaccinated. A new analysis shows how many lives could have been saved across the country. NPR.org

One tragic fact about the nearly 1 million people who died of COVID-19 in the U.S. is that a huge share of them didn't have to.

55% of Hospitalized COVID Patients Still Had Symptoms at 2 Years 'Ongoing follow-up of COVID-19 survivors is essential,' researcher says Molly Walker medpagetoday

More than half of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, during the initial outbreak reported at least one symptom a couple of years later, researchers found.