EditorialPedestrians walk past a pop-up COVID-19 testing site outside Grand Central Terminal in midtown Manhattan on Thursday, July 7, 2022. (Gabby Jones/The New York Times)
EditorialHospital staff with a two-month-old about to be placed on a ventilator following complications of COVID-19 at Children’s Hospital in New Orleans, Aug. 20, 2021. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
EditorialRochelle Walensky, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, speaks during a Senate hearing in Washington on Nov. 4, 2021. (Stefani Reynolds/The New York Times)
EditorialA United Airlines gate agent on Dec. 21, 2021 in Denver. United joined many other airlines in canceling flights over Christmas, mainly caused by the new and highly transmissible omicron variant of the coronavirus. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden’s top medical adviser for the coronavirus response, briefs reporters at the White House on Dec. 1, 2021, about the first known case of Omicron detected in the United States. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
EditorialA volunteer in the Johnson & Johnson vaccine trial receives a shot in the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation Youth Center in Masiphumelele Township, South Africa, Dec. 5, 2020. (Joao Silva/The New York Times)
EditorialGail Clayton, a nurse, receives the vaccine at the Cardiff and Vale Therapy Centre in Cardiff, Britain, Dec. 8, 2020. (Andrew Testa/The New York Times)
EditorialA colored scanning electron micrograph provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shows a dying cell infected with the coronavirus, with viral particles in red. (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases via The New York Times)