Ozzy Osbourne arrives at the 62nd annual Grammy Awards on Jan. 26, 2020, in Los Angeles. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP hide caption
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A police officer watches over residents lining up for COVID tests Shanghai. Chen Si/AP hide caption
When this Shanghai building went into COVID lockdown, my WeChat message group blew up
J.R. Chester, an advocate with the Texas Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, says she hopes the state's updated sex education curriculum will lead to more open conversation between parents and kids. Keren Carrión/KERA hide caption
Texas got a sex ed update, but students and educators say there's still a lot missing
Friday
A Colorado inmate involved in the culling of poultry at a farm as part of a pre-release program has the first human case of avian flu in the United States. Here, cage-free chickens walk in a fenced pasture at an organic farm near Waukon, Iowa, in October 2015. Charlie Neibergall/AP hide caption
A writer lost his singing voice, then discovered the gymnastics of speech
Left: A Kool cigarettes advertisement targeting Black communities for a sponsored event, the Kool Jazz Festival; Right: A Newport cigarettes ad targeting young Black customers. Stanford Research into the Impact of Tobacco Advertising hide caption
How the tobacco industry targeted Black Americans with menthol smokes
Rachel Levine, U.S. assistant secretary for health, says, "The language of medicine and science is being used to drive people to suicide." Political attacks against trans young people are on the rise across the country. Caroline Brehman-Pool/Getty Images hide caption
Rachel Levine calls state anti-LGBTQ bills disturbing and dangerous to trans youth
Thursday
A mask is seen on the ground at John F. Kennedy Airport on April 19, 2022 in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption
Jerome Adams, who served as Trump's U.S. surgeon general, says he hopes that coming out of the pandemic, people can have a healthier respect for the scientific process. Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
The Food and Drug Administration says its proposal to ban menthol cigarettes has the potential to significantly decrease disease and death from tobacco by "reducing youth experimentation and addiction." Here, menthol cigarettes and other tobacco products are on sale at a San Francisco store in 2018. Jeff Chiu/AP hide caption
Moderna says its vaccine appears to be about 51 percent effective for children ages 6 months to less than 2 years, and 37 percent effective for those ages 2 to less than 6 years. Ole Spata/dpa picture alliance via Getty Images hide caption
Moderna asks FDA to authorize first COVID-19 vaccine for very young children
Farrin Chwalkowski; age 45-54; New Jersey; art professor. "F*** 2020 The World in 2020, Everything begins with Covid 19 in year of 2020 A splendid entry into the world of misery someday too bright, someday too dark A gloomy year, the 2020 The art of loss, losing job, losing love one, losing your mind," said Chwalkowski. Libby Tyson/The National Women's History Museum hide caption
Women and girls are sharing their journals to create a herstory of the pandemic
Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy ( left) and Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch teamed up on a series of landmark legislative health care achievements, such as the Ryan White program on AIDS treatment, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the first major federal child care law. John Duricka/AP hide caption
A TSA officer walks past an airline passenger not wearing a face mask in the Denver International Airport on April 19, following the end of the public transportation face mask mandate. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images hide caption