COVID-19

A third-grade student reads to the rest of her class at Beecher Hills Elementary School in Atlanta, AUg. 19, 2022. Mounting evidence shows that students who spent most of the 2020-2021 school year learning remotely, many of them Black and Latino, lost about half an academic year of learning. That’s twice as much as their peers who studied in person that year. Third-graders are at a particularly delicate moment — students who don’t read fluently by the end of third grade are more likely to struggle in the future, and even drop out, studies show. (AP Photo / Ron Harris)

This 2022 photo provided by Julie Ann Nitsch is hospitalized in Texas before surgery to remove her fallopian tubes, in a 2022 photo provided by Nitsch. Nitsch, A sexual assault survivor, she says she chose sterilization at age 36 rather than risk getting pregnant by another rapist with restrictive abortion laws in effect.. (Julie Ann Nitsch via AP)

Roseline Ujah, 49, sits on her bed in Umuida, Nigeria, Feb. 11, 2022. Doctors at a local hospital suspect her husband Godwin died of COVID-19, but there were no tests available locally to confirm their diagnosis. Many widows in Africa say the pandemic has taken more than their husbands: In their widowhood, it’s cost them their extended families, their homes and their futures. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Medical workers collects swab samples from residents in a lockdown area in the Jingan district of western Shanghai, April 4, 2022. AP’s reporting revealed that Shanghai’s unconventional methodology for recording COVID cases and deaths almost certainly results in a marked undercount. official numbers calculates virus cases and deaths, almost certainly resulting in a marked undercount.China has sent more than 10,000 health workers from across the country to Shanghai, including 2,000 military medical staff, as it struggles to stamp out a rapidly spreading COVID-19 outbreak in China's largest city. (AP Photo / Chen Si)

Pregnant woman Mariana Vishegirskaya emerges from a maternity and children’s hospital that was gutted by shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 9, 2022. Vishegirskaya survived the shelling and later gave birth to a girl in another hospital in Mariupol. The attack on the hospital, part of AP’s exclusive coverage from the besieged city, also figures prominently in ongoing joint investigation by AP and PBS Frontline, documenting potential Russian war crimes. (AP Photo / Mstyslav Chernov)

Danielle Mitchell, right, watches as her daughter, Brooklynn Chiles, 8, is examined during a follow-up visit at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, Feb. 11, 2022. Brooklynn’s father, Rodney Chiles, died of COVID-19 last year and Brooklynn tested positive three times. She is part of a National Institutes of Health-funded multiyear study at the hospital, looking at the impact of COVID-19 on children’s health and quality of life. (AP Photo / Carolyn Kaster)

Dead bodies are dropped into a mass grave on the outskirts of Mariupol, Ukraine, March 9, 2022. Mass burials were carried out quickly during heavy shelling by Russian forces laying siege to the port city on the Sea of Azov. (AP Photo / Evgeniy Maloletka)