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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 02:<br />
Elon Musk attends The 2022 Met Gala Celebrating “In America: An Anthology of Fashion” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 02, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)

Not only did Elon Musk update his bio to ‘Chief Twit,’ he filmed himself carrying a sink into Twitter’s headquarters

By Erin Prater and Alena Botros

MADRID, SPAIN – NOVEMBER 23: A nurse checks a patient for possible thrombus in the ICU of the Hospital Enfermera Isabel Zendal, on November 23, 2021, in Madrid, Spain. The hospital is currently dedicated exclusively to the care of covid patients. In recent days there has been an upward trend in the evolution of the pandemic in Spain. The cumulative incidence in the last 14 days per 100,000 inhabitants stands at 132.19 compared to 111.95 last Friday. Currently, there are 2,880 patients admitted for Covid-19 in Spain, 552 of them are in the ICU with an occupancy rate of 5.70 percent. (Photo By Eduardo Parra/Europa Press via Getty Images)

Even a mild case of COVID can put you at higher risk for blood clots and death, according to a new study

A woman attempts to smell an orange

COVID symptoms aren’t what they used to be. Here’s how they’ve changed over time, and what they look like now

A woman walking across the Brooklyn Bridge.

New York’s struggle with the new Omicron variant BQ is trying to tell us something

NEW YORK, NY – APRIL 19: Travelers wearing masks look up at a sign inside John F. Kennedy Airport on April 19, 2022 in New York City. On Monday, a federal judge in Florida struck down the mask mandate for airports and other methods of public transportation as a new COVID variant is on the rise across parts of the United States. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Two BQ variants are continuing to spread in the U.S. Together, they just took the Number 2 spot

KINGSTON UPON THAMES – JUNE 3: In this photo illustration, the photographers son has a face mask put on by an adult to go to school on June 3,2020 in Kingston Upon Thames,England. (Photo by Peter Dazeley/Getty Images)

Flu season is off to an early start in the U.S. One group that often avoids the worst of it could get hit hardest

Pedestrians in the central business district in Singapore, on Tuesday, April 26, 2022. Singapore began allowing all workers to return to the workplace and doing away with checking peoples vaccination statuses at most places. Photographer: Bryan van der Beek/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Not just Singapore: The highly immune-evasive XBB COVID variant has been identified in 26 countries, the WHO says

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – DECEMBER 30: A person wearing a mask walks past street art of the Statue of Liberty wearing a face mask and 2021 glasses in SoHo on December 30, 2020 in New York City. The pandemic has caused long-term repercussions throughout the tourism and entertainment industries, including temporary and permanent closures of historic and iconic venues, costing the city and businesses billions in revenue. (Photo by Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images)

Two new ‘troublesome’ COVID variants now account for 20% of cases in the New York region as the city braces for a winter wave

MUBENDE, UGANDA – OCTOBER 13: Red Cross workers clean ambulances prior to transporting Ebola victims to a hospital on October 13, 2022 in Mubende, Uganda. Emergency response teams, isolation centres and treatment tents have been set up by the Ugandan health authorities around the central Mubende district after 19 recorded deaths and 54 confirmed cases from an outbreak of the Ebola virus. The first death from this outbreak of the Ebola-Sudan strain of the virus was announced on 19 September and as yet, there is no vaccine for this strain. (Photo by Luke Dray/Getty Images)

The CDC has warned health care workers to be alert for Ebola as the deadly disease spreads in Uganda. Here’s what Americans need to know

An elderly woman getting a COVID vaccine

New Omicron booster ‘literally could save your life’: White House COVID czar tells seniors to vax up as new variants gain ground

Illustration of people in face masks running from a huge tidal wave

The XBB family of Omicron has landed in the U.S. Here’s what it means for this fall’s COVID wave

HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA – JUNE 15: A group of people throw face masks into a fire pit at Huntington City Beach in Huntington Beach on Tuesday, June 15, 2021 as part of a protest against Gov. Gavin Newsom and the State of Californias mask mandates. “Today’s gathering was supposed to be a celebration of freedom and ending the era of mandated masks but with recent retractions by Governor Gavin Newsom, it has now become a symbolic peaceful protest, said event organizer Marc Ang. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

BQ.1.1 is among the most immune-evasive COVID variants yet. It’s coming in hot in the U.S.

Artistic rendering of COVID traveling the globe.

COVID has splintered into multiple variants dominating different countries at the same time. Experts say these are some scenarios that could play out

A medical worker giving a woman a COVID nasal swab.

The ‘Aeterna’ BA.4.6 COVID variant is making steady progress toward potential domination this fall

A woman wearing a face mask walks past a mural

Many Americans are shunning the Omicron COVID booster. What it means for the coming season as the virus mutates