COVID-19

Customers eat at the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, after Philadelphia city officials lifted the city’s vaccine mandate for indoor establishments that serve food and drink, but an indoor mask mandate remained in place. AP has reported exclusively that data modeling shows 73% of the country is believed to be protected from omicron and that future spikes will likely require much less — if any — dramatic disruption in the U.S. (AP Photo / Matt Rourke)

Drivers block lanes of traffic in Ottawa, Ontario, Feb. 14, 2022, as trucks and other vehicles joined the “freedom convoy” protests against Canadian COVID restrictions. The protests in Ottawa and elsewhere, including the Ambassador Bridge between Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, snarled traffic and disrupted international commerce. (AP Photo / Ted Shaffrey)

Virginia Mavhunga, a 13-year-old teenage mother, holds her child in her rural home in Murehwa, 80 kilometres (50 miles) northeast of Zimbabwe’s capital Harare, Nov. 12, 2021. Virginia, part of a steep increase in pregnancies among girls and teenagers in Zimbabwe and other southern African countries during the pandemic, dropped out of school after becoming pregnant in a community yet to adjust to the sight of a pregnant girl in school uniform. (AP Photo / Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

FILE - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at a rally outside the Albany County Courthouse in Albany, N.Y., Aug. 14, 2019, following a hearing about vaccine religious exemptions. An AP investigation finds that Kennedy’s organization, Children’s Health Defense, has raked in money and followers as Kennedy used his star power as a member of one of America’s most famous families to open doors, raise money and lend his group credibility while spreading misinformation about COVID vaccines. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)

In this Friday, Oct. 1, 2021 photo, from left, Zihare Wellons, 7, Shahif Wellons, 12, and Janiyah Acie, 3 Children walk through a new Rec2Tech space at Jefferson Recreation Center in Pittsbburgh, Oct. 1, 2021. The facility will provide access to technology and innovative programming for community members including STEM, computer science and coding education, combined with the arts. Although Pittsburgh has yet to use any of its funding from the American Rescue Plan, passed by Congress last spring, the city says it plans to use some of the money to expand these programs. It also plans to buy 78 electric vehicles, build technology labs and launch a pilot project paying 100 low-income Black women $500 a month for two years to test the merits of a guaranteed income program.(AP Photo / Rebecca Droke)

This undated photo provided by the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control shows a fraudulent COVID-19 vaccination card. A Northern California bar owner was arrested on suspicion of selling fake COVID-19 vaccination cards to several undercover state agents for $20 each. After receiving a tip, undercover agents with the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control went to Old Corner Saloon in the city of Clements several times in April and bought fake laminated vaccination cards, officials said. (California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control via AP)

Tshimologo Bonolo, 8, poses for a photograph at her house in Soweto, South Africa, Saturday, June 26, 2021. She lost her father to COVID-19 in July 2020, and is now looked after by her mother and her grandmother. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

In this photo created with an in-camera multiple exposure, Registered nurse Cathy Cullen, part of the first group of nurses who had been treating coronavirus patients in the hospital’s intensive care unit, poses for an in-camera multiple exposure in the empty COVID-19 ICU at Providence Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, Calif., April 6, 2021. Cullen sometimes tears up when thinking about what she and the other nurses endured. “The birth of my children and marriage aside, being a part of this team, this endeavor, and this pandemic is by far the greatest, worst, most rewarding, most painful thing I have ever done in my life,” she says. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Jerry Ramos is remembered with a collection displayed at his home in Watsonville, Calif., June 6, 2021. A father and essential worker, Ramos died Feb. 15 at age 32, becoming one of more than 600,000 Americans who have perished in the pandemic — and an example of COVID-19’s strikingly uneven and ever-shifting toll on the nation’s racial and ethnic groups. Latinos between 30 and 39 have died at five times the rate of white people in the same age group.(AP Photo / Nic Coury)