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Medyka, Poland March 8, 2022: A young boy sits on a suitcase as Ukrainian refugees wait to be transported after crossing the border in Medyka, Poland Tuesday. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)

Russia spread anti-vax lies in Ukraine. Will it cause a COVID crisis for Europe?

With unvaccinated refugees from Ukraine pouring into other countries, health officials hope to avert outbreaks of COVID-19 and other diseases.

Community workers wearing protective suits watch over a masked resident twirling a dragon shaped ribbon near a barricaded coronavirus testing site setup outside the Drum Tower, Wednesday, March 23, 2022, in Beijing, China. A fast-spreading variant known as "stealth omicron" is testing China's zero-tolerance strategy, which had kept the virus at bay since the deadly initial outbreak in the city of Wuhan in early 2020. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

WHO: COVID-19 cases rise for 2nd straight week, deaths fall

FILE - A health worker administers a dose of a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination clinic at the Norristown Public Health Center in Norristown, Pa., Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021. Moderna says its COVID-19 vaccine works in babies, toddlers and preschoolers. The company announced early findings from a study of children younger than 6 on Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Moderna says its low-dose COVID-19 shot works for children under 6

Jeffrey Carlson stands for a portrait outside his home in Vadnais Heights, Minn., on Sunday, March 13, 2022. Carlson, a Type 1 diabetic with heart stents, contracted COVID-19 in January, but recovered quickly after being treated with Merck's molnupiravir medication. (AP Photo/Nicole Neri)

COVID-19 pills could be a game-changer, but doctors trying to use them face hurdles

Patrick Green, a utilities plant operator in Modesto, California.

Poop surveillance proved its worth during pandemic, could become standard practice

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Pete Davidson skipping ride to space on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket

FILE - In this photo provided by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority small fish school in waters of Ribbon Reef No 10 near Cairns, Australia, Sept. 12, 2017. Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is suffering widespread and severe coral bleaching due to high ocean temperatures two years after a mass bleaching event, a government agency said on Friday, March 18, 2022. (J. Sumerling/Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority via AP)

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is suffering widespread coral bleaching

Boxes containing the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped at the McKesson distribution center in Olive Branch, Miss., Sunday, Dec. 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, Pool)

Moderna asks FDA to authorize 4th COVID-19 dose for all adults

FILE - A man with a protective mask smokes a cigarette while waiting for a bus in Detroit, Wednesday, April 8, 2020. U.S. cigarette smoking dropped to a new all-time low in 2020, with 1 in 8 adults saying they were current smokers, according to survey data released Thursday, March 17, 2022, by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Adult e-cigarette use also dropped, the CDC reported. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

U.S. adult smoking rate fell during first year of pandemic

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FILE - Dr. Manjul Shukla transfers Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine into a syringe, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, at a mobile vaccination clinic in Worcester, Mass. Pfizer said Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021, that a booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine may protect against the new omicron variant even though the initial two doses appear significantly less effective. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Study reveals likely reason for ‘stealth’ Omicron’s recent success

What accounts for BA.2’s recent success? It’s not due to an ability to evade the protection of COVID-19 vaccines, a new study finds.

Professor Jacov Lavee receives a fourth dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in Ramat Gan, Israel.

Second COVID booster shot does little to stop Omicron, study finds

FILE - A lab assistant points at charts of a sequenced Covid-19 virus at the Wellcome Sanger Institute that is operated by Genome Research in Cambridge, England, Thursday, March 4, 2021. After dropping most coronavirus restrictions in February 2022, Britain is now ending some COVID-19 testing and monitoring programs, a move some scientists fear will complicate efforts to track the virus and detect worrisome new variants. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

Scientists fear U.K. is easing coronavirus testing and monitoring too soon

Nolan Balcitis, 12, sits with his dog, Callie, in front of his family's home in Crown Point, Ind., on March 4, 2022. Nolan was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes six months after a mild case of COVID-19. Reports of rising diabetes cases during the pandemic have scientists exploring if there could be a link with the coronavirus. Emerging evidence shows the virus can attack insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, a process that might trigger diabetes in susceptible people. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)

Does COVID-19 cause diabetes? Scientists are trying to find out

Safia Ibrahim demonstrates for the camera the tools and techniques she uses to perform female genital mutilation (FGM), which she learned at the age of 15 and has been practising for 35 years, as her neighbours daughter looks on in the courtyard of her home in Hargeisa, Somaliland, a semi-autonomous breakaway region of Somalia, on Feb. 7, 2022. Officials and health workers say cases of female genital mutilation increased during the pandemic in parts of Africa and particularly in Somaliland where 98 percent of girls aged 5 to 11 undergo the procedure. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Amid COVID in Somaliland, genital mutilation for girls on the rise

Pfizer asks U.S. to allow fourth COVID vaccine dose for seniors

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COVID-19 cases, deaths continue to drop globally, WHO says

WHO says COVID-19 boosters needed, reversing previous call

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FILE - A worker moves boxes carrying Novavax's COVID-19 vaccine at SK Bioscience Co. in Andong, South Korea, on Feb. 9, 2022. Before the pandemic, Novavax was a small American company that had never brought any vaccine to market. Its shots have proven highly effective, but it is relying heavily on other companies to make them. (Kim Hyun-tae/Yonhap via AP, File)

Rich countries getting new COVID vaccine before poorer ones despite U.N.-backed initiative

The company behind a COVID-19 vaccine touted as a key tool for the developing world will miss a target for giving doses to the U.N.-backed effort to deliver shots to poorer countries.

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