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A cache of more than 1.4 million newly released records exposes the inner workings of the nation’s largest opioid manufacturer.

COVID-19 cases continue to pile up in Maryland and the state’s positivity rate hovers above 6%. But even as cases rise, the risk of serious illness remains low.
Shaun Truelove and Niljanjan Chatterjee are featured.

The mRNA COVID-19 vaccines available in the United States work. But how well they work, by what metrics and for whom … that’s all unfortunately in flux.
 

The past two pandemic summers saw a spike in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and death, but this season may be different. While health experts expect cases to rise, they don't think there will be a wave as devastating as the previous two summers or the recent omicron surge.
 

More than 80 million Americans have contracted COVID, and as many as one-third were left with lingering symptoms. Maybe brain fog, or unremitting fatigue.

As of Wednesday, an average of nearly 18,000 people with the coronavirus are in American hospitals, an increase of almost 20 percent from two weeks ago.
 

Paul Spiegel, director of the Center for Humanitarian Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, spent more than six weeks in Poland and other countries neighboring Ukraine as part of a World Health Organization surge team, acting as emergency coordinator for refugee health.

One million people have now died in the U.S. because of COVID-19, according to NBC News' latest tally. It would have been impossible to imagine that death toll just over two years ago, when the novel coronavirus began spreading around the world.
 

Researchers don’t fully understand the menstrual cycle’s effects on the immune system, but experts say there are reasons some may feel sick at certain points.
 

SARS-CoV-2 remains a long way from being ordinary. It has not yet found seasonal cadence — take the recent surge in Europe and the U.K., which comes just weeks after the initial Omicron wave subsided — and it’s still capable of inflicting mass death and disability (see Hong Kong’s lethal last few months).
 

Two new Omicron variants sweeping South Africa—likely able to evade vaccines and natural immunity from previous infections—have been identified in the U.S., multiple COVID-19 researchers told Fortune.
 

Although mandates and recommendations for wearing masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19 have changed over the past several months, it is still considered safe to go maskless at crowded outdoor events.