December 1: “US Reports 1st Case of Omicron Variant in Returning
Traveler” (Associated Press)
December 1: “Meta Removes Over 600 Accounts Linked to COVID
Disinformation E#ort by China” (Axios)
December 6: “New York City Orders a ‘1st-in-the-Nation’ Vaccine
Mandate for Private Companies” (NPR)
December 9: “CDC’s Covid Vaccination Rates Appear In$ated,
Experts Worry” (NBC News)
December 13: “China Reports First Omicron Covid-19 Case in the
Mainland” (!e Wall Street Journal)
December 14: “As U.S. Nears 800,000 Virus Deaths, 1 of Every 100
Older Americans Has Perished” (!e New York Times)
December 15: “C.D.C. Virus Tests Were Contaminated and Poorly
Designed, Agency Says” (!e New York Times)
December 17: “WHO Approves Novavax Vaccine for Emergency
Use Against COVID” (ABC News)
December 20: “EU Approves Fi%h Jab as WHO Urges Greater E#ort
to End Pandemic” (Medical Xpress)
December 27: “CDC Recommends Shorter COVID Isolation,
Quarantine for All” (Associated Press)
December 30: “US Children Hospitalized with COVID in Near-
Record Numbers” (Associated Press)
January 4: “New COVID Records in US, UK, France as Omicron
Runs Rampant” (Medical Xpress)
January 6: “COVID-19 May Have Killed Nearly 3 Million in India,
Far More "an O&cial Counts Show” (Science)
January 13: “COVID-19 Pill Rollout Stymied by Shortages as
Omicron Rages” (Associated Press)
January 14: “Supreme Court Halts COVID-19 Vaccine Rules for US
Businesses” (Associated Press)
January 19: “US Begins O#ering Free COVID Test Kits, But Doubts
Persist” (Associated Press)
January 20: “WHO Says No Evidence Healthy Children Adolescents
Need COVID-19 Boosters” (Reuters)
January 26: “Covid-19 Deaths in the U.S. Top 2,100 a Day, Highest
in Nearly a Year” (!e Wall Street Journal)
January 26: “Hospitals are Denying Transplants for Patients Who
Aren’t Vaccinated Against Covid, with Backing from Ethicists” (
STAT News)
January 28: “Welcome to Beijing’s Covid Olympics: ‘"e Situation Is
Going to Be Strict for a While’” (!e Wall Street Journal)
January 31: “"e Latest Covid Variant is 1.5 Times More Contagious
"an Omicron And Already Circulating in Almost Half of U.S.
States” (CNBC)
January 31: “US Gives Full Approval to Moderna’s COVID-19
Vaccine” (Associated Press)
February 1: “Pandemic Pits Health Care Experts Against the Media”
(Axios)
February 2: “’Take Back Life’: More Nations Ease Coronavirus
Restrictions” (Associated Press)
February 3: “A Deluge of Medical Waste Is Swamping the Globe, a
U.N. Report Says” (!e New York Times)
February 4: “COVID Falling in 49 of 50 States as Deaths Near
900,000” (Associated Press)
February 4: “Covid-19 Vaccines Linked to Menstrual Cycle
Changes” (!e Wall Street Journal)
February 4: “Lockdowns Only Reduced COVID-19 Death Rate by
0.2%, Study Finds: ‘Lockdowns Should be Rejected Out of Hand’”
(Fox News)
February 14: “CDC: COVID-19 Booster E#ectiveness Wanes A%er
Four Months” (!e Scientist)
February 16: “WHO: New COVID Cases Drop by 19% Globally,
Deaths Stable” (Associated Press)
February 17: “California Adopts Nation’s First ‘Endemic’ Virus
Policy” (ABC News)
February 25: “CDC to Signi!cantly Ease Pandemic Mask Guidelines
Friday” (Associated Press)
February 25: “Another Casualty of Russia’s Invasion: Ukraine’s
Ability to Contain the Coronavirus” (!e New York Times)
March 3: “Arthritis Drug Reduces Mortality in Severe COVID-19
Huge Clinical Trial Finds” (Science)
March 4: “Most EU Women Blame COVID Pandemic for Spike in
Gender Violence—Poll” (Reuters)
March 7: “Mainland China Daily Local COVID Cases Climb to
2-Year High” (Reuters)
March 8: “WHO Says COVID Boosters Needed, Reversing Previous
Call” (Associated Press)
March 16: “Report: N.Y. Health Agency ‘Misled’ Public on Nursing
Home COVID Deaths” (Axios)
March 21: “Overwhelmed by Omicron, Hong Kong Runs Out of
Space for Its Dead” (!e Wall Street Journal)
March 23: “Omicron BA.2 Variant Represents Rising Share of U.S.
Covid-19 Cases” (!e Wall Street Journal)
March 29: “CDC Recommends Second Booster Shot for Americans
Over 50” (Axios)
April 4: “New Laws Let Visitors See Loved Ones in Health Care
Facilities, Even in an Outbreak” (NPR)
April 6: “"e F.D.A. Suspends Use of a Glaxo Antibody Drug in the
U.S. as an Omicron Subvariant Spreads” (!e New York Times)
April 12: “WHO Says It Is Analyzing Two New Omicron COVID
Sub-Variants” (Reuters)
April 14: “Shanghai Cases Hit Record as Xi Reiterates Urgency of
COVID Curbs” (Reuters)
April 15: “WHO: COVID Cases, Deaths in Africa Drop to Lowest
Levels Yet” (Associated Press)
April 15: “Valneva Covid Vaccine Approved for Use in UK” (BBC)
April 18: “BA.2 Proves the Pandemic Isn’t Over, But People Are
Over It” (!e Wall Street Journal)
April 26: “FDA Approves First COVID Treatment for Children
Under 12” (Axios)
May 5: “WHO: Nearly 15 Million Deaths Associated with
COVID-19” (Associated Press)
May 5: “FDA Limits Use of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 Vaccine,
Citing Clotting Risk” (STAT News)
May 5: “CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans
Followed COVID Lockdown Orders” (VICE News)
May 9: “Covid-19 Cases Rise in Parts of U.S. with High Vaccination
Rates” (!e Wall Street Journal)
May 16: “FDA Rejects Antidepressant Seen as Possible Covid-19
Treatment” (STAT News)
May 16: “’A Pretty Big Deal’: U.S. Makes COVID-19 Technologies
Available for Use in Developing Countries” (Science)
May 17: “FDA Clears COVID Booster Shot for Healthy Kids Ages 5
to 11” (Associated Press)
May 18: “FDA Greenlights Nonprescription Test for Covid, Flu and
RSV” (NBC News)
May 19: “WHO Clears China’s CanSino COVID Vaccine for
Emergency Use” (Associated Press)
May 24: “As Reports of ‘Paxlovid Rebound’ Increase, Covid
Researchers Scramble for Answers” (STAT News)
May 26: “Rhode Island to Open First Federally Backed COVID Site
Providing Anti-Viral Pills” (Axios)
