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Any traveler who has yet to go on a summer trip needs to keep in mind that the pandemic is still going on. Surges are happening across the U.S. and in popular tourist destinations like France, Italy, and Spain. That means your trip planning can't just focus on what to see and where to eat. You need to think about COVID prep, too. 
 

The rising cases are concerning public health officials and experts, who believe there are more infections going unreported and are working to communicate the threat to at-risk communities without creating stigma or sowing alarm — or overly reassuring — the general public. They also are scrambling to distribute tests and vaccines.
 

Shannon Frattaroli discusses the future of red flag laws in America. 
She is introduced at the 40:20 mark and featured at the 43:05 mark.

Whatever long COVID's toll turns out to be, it will be too many people. However you gather or analyze the data, experts told STAT, the proportion of people whose troublesome, sometimes disabling symptoms linger after their acute COVID-19 infections clear is sizable and worrying.
 

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers found that people who are biologically male are more likely to experience severe outcomes and death from COVID than people who are biologically female. However, the reasons for these differences, and how they work, are not yet fully understood.
 

ShotSpotter is a predictive policing technology that can detect the location of a gunshot. Now it's being rapidly adopted by police departments across the U.S. to help curb gun-related violence and crime. The question, however, is how effective that technology is.

As states report less frequently, changes in the trajectory of the virus are slower to reveal themselves.
 

With more Americans shielded from severe illness through vaccination and infection, COVID-19 has transformed — for now at least — into an unpleasant, inconvenient nuisance for many.
 

Consumers, employers, and just about everyone else interested in health care prices will soon get an unprecedented look at what insurers pay for care, perhaps helping answer a question that has long dogged those who buy insurance: Are we getting the best deal we can?
 

With the end of Roe v. Wade’s abortion protections, there are now millions of Americans who won’t be able to get an abortion if they want one. Although for some who are seeking abortion because of the way a pregnancy is affecting their health, it shouldn’t be a problem, thanks to exceptions for the life of the mother that are common, even in the strictest abortion bans. But the medical professionals, legal experts and researchers say those exceptions are usually vague, creating an environment where patients have to meet some unspoken and arbitrary criteria to get treatment.
 

Lawmakers and administration officials have spent much of the past few years talking about "the next pandemic" and what the country will do when it comes. But now that monkeypox is spreading exponentially throughout the United States, public health officials agree on one thing — the government didn't move fast enough.
 

Federal action to make children older than 6 months eligible for vaccines not only affects parents but also day care centers, which have struggled throughout the pandemic.
Rupali Limaye and Crystal Watson are quoted.