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Nathan Lambrecht is photographed next to a picture of his father, Doug Lambrecht, at his apartment in Woodinville, Wash., Monday, March 21, 2022. The 71-year-old retired physician was among the first of the nearly 1 million Americans to die from COVID-19. "I'm afraid that as the numbers get bigger, people are going to care less and less," Nathan said. "I just hope people who didn't know them and didn't have the same sort of loss in their lives due to COVID, I just hope that they don't forget and they remember to care." (AP Photo/David Goldman)

1 million COVID-19 deaths: A look at the U.S. numbers

As the count of U.S. deaths from COVID-19 passes 1 million, there’s a wealth of data making clear which groups have been hit the hardest.

FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020, file photo, a vial of the Phase 3 Novavax coronavirus vaccine is seen ready for use in the trial at St. George's University hospital in London. Novavax says its vaccine appears effective against COVID-19 in a large study, including against variants. Results from the study in the U.S. and Mexico were released on Monday, June 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

With old-school technology, can Novavax win over COVID vaccine skeptics?

FILE - Workers at a drive-up COVID-19 testing clinic stand in a tent as they prepare PCR coronavirus tests, Jan. 4, 2022, in Puyallup, Wash., south of Seattle. Testing for COVID-19 has plummeted across the globe, dropping by 70 to 90% worldwide from the first to the second quarter of 2022, making it much tougher for scientists to track the course of the pandemic and spot new, worrisome viral mutants as they emerge and spread. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Pandemic gets tougher to track as COVID testing plunges

Light shines from a total lunar eclipse over Santa Monica Beach on May 26, 2021.

Moon goes blood red this weekend: ‘Eclipse for the Americas’

In this image from body camera video provided by Sedgwick County, police put Cedric “C.J.” Lofton, 17, into a body-length restraining device called a WRAP outside his home in Wichita, Kan., on Sept. 24, 2021. His foster father, unable to deal with a teen who seemed to be in the throes of schizophrenia, had called Wichita police. When they arrived, Cedric refused to leave the porch and go with them; he was obstinate but afraid, meek but frantic. (Sedgwick County via AP)

‘From crisis to death’: Probing teen’s last, desperate hours

University of Michigan civil and environmental engineering professor Krista Wigginton applies human urine derived fertilizer to beds of peonies at Nichols Arboretum in Ann Arbor on Monday, May 9, 2022. The "pee-cycling" effort is part of University of Michigan research that promotes human urine-based fertilizer as beneficial to the plants and to the environment. (Marcin Szczepanski/Lead Multimedia Storyteller, Michigan Engineering via AP)

Michigan profs push ‘pee for peonies’ urine diversion plan

The supermassive black holes at the center of the Messier 87 galaxy (left) and the Milky Way (right).

Q&A: She discovered the black hole at the center of our galaxy. This week, she finally saw it

In this 2021 photo provided by the University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, a researcher harvests a thale cress plant growing in lunar soil, at a laboratory in Gainesville, Fla. For the first time, scientists have used lunar soil collected by long-ago moonwalkers to grow plants, with results promising enough that NASA and others already are envisioning hothouses on the moon for the next generation of lunar explorers. (Tyler Jones/UF/IFAS via AP)

Scientists grow plants in lunar dirt. Next stop: The moon

This is the first image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.

Astronomers produce the first image of the black hole at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy

The coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2, shown in purple, infects a cell, colored in green.

COVID-19 Pandemic: News, Links & Resources

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Covid-19 Pandemic and the Coronavirus

This transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2, also known as 2019-nCoV, the coronavirus virus that causes COVID-19

A guide to help you keep track of all the Omicron subvariants

The Omicron strain of the coronavirus keeps generating new subvariants. Here’s a look at how they stack up.

FILE - In this May 28, 2020, file photo, a passenger wears personal protective equipment on a Delta Airlines flight after landing at Minneapolis−Saint Paul International Airport, in Minneapolis. Airlines are trying to convince a frightened public that measures like mandatory face masks and hospital-grade air filters make sitting in a plane safer than many other indoor settings during the coronavirus pandemic, but it isn’t working. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

There’s a lot at stake for the CDC in the mask mandate appeal

FILE - Heather Haworth, left, holds the hand of her 12-year-old son Jeremy as he receives the first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from medical assistant Gloria Urgell at the Providence, Edwards Lifesciences vaccination site in Santa Ana, Calif., Thursday, May 13, 2021. The California state Senate Judiciary committee approved a bill by state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, Thursday, May 5, 2022, that would allow minors between the ages of 12-17 to get vaccinated without parental approval. The measure now goes to the full Senate. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File )

State measure that would allow preteens to get vaccines without parental consent advances

FILE - Vials of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine are seen at a pharmacy in Denver on Saturday, March 6, 2021. On Thursday, May 5, 2022, U.S. regulators strictly limited who can receive this vaccine due to a rare but serious risk of blood clots. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

FDA restricts Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine due to blood clot risk

FILE - A pedestrian removes a protective mask worn as a precaution against the spread of the coronavirus in Philadelphia, Wednesday, March 2, 2022. People in Philadelphia could be excused if they felt a sense of whiplash Friday, April 22, 2022 as the city abandoned its indoor mask mandate just days after becoming the first big U.S. city to reimpose compulsory masking in response to an increase in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Even as COVID cases rise, mask mandates stay shelved

FDA sets June meetings on COVID vaccines for youngest kids

Increased infectious disease risk likely from climate change

Moderna asks regulators to OK its COVID-19 shot for children under 6

CDC estimates 3 in 4 kids have had coronavirus infections

Covid-19 Vaccines

LOS ANGELES, CA - MAY 05: Asia Hartford, LVN, right, gives Luis Fernandez, 28, a vaccine in Ted Watkins Memorial Park on Thursday, May 5, 2022 in Los Angeles, CA. CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky visted a health department vaccination site in the park. Afterwards she walked into the park and watches children and their parents being vaccinated in the park by an outreach team from the near by site. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

L.A. coronavirus hospitalizations start rising again; officials urge mask-wearing

The 29% week-over-week increase in coronavirus-positive hospitalizations was the highest weekly percentage increase in L.A. County since mid-January

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