Evening Edition: U.S. focuses on booster shots as best strategy against new variant

Travelers wait at a coronavirus testing center at the airport in Munich, Germany, on Saturday. (EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

U.S. focuses on booster shots as best strategy against new variant

A group of senior U.S. health officials had a call with South African scientists Sunday to understand the latest about the new omicron coronavirus variant and to help inform next steps, according to a senior administration official.

By Yasmeen Abutaleb, Fenit Nirappil, Rachel Roubein and Rachel Pannett ●  Read more »

South Africa, which found the omicron variant first, sequences less than 1 percent of coronavirus samples

By Miriam Berger ●  Read more »

With much still to learn about omicron variant, here's what is known so far

By Meryl Kornfield, Adela Suliman, Christine Armario and María Luisa Paúl ●  Read more »

Israel bars all foreigners, reinstates phone surveillance in effort to contain omicron variant

By Shira Rubin ●  Read more »

Congress returns to work staring down fiscal deadlines and unresolved fights over Biden's agenda

By Tony Romm ●  Read more »

Nathan's legacy: He got new lungs after covid. Now comes the hard part.

Story by Annie Gowen | Photos by Bonnie Jo Mount ●  Read more »

Organ transplant patients are at risk from covid. But some donors and recipients are fighting vaccine requirements.

By Brittany Shammas ●  Read more »

The Black people who lived in Walden Woods long before Henry David Thoreau

Retropolis | The Past, Rediscovered ●  By Sydney Trent ●  Read more »

Honduras vote raises fears of violence at what U.S. official calls a 'key moment' for Central America

By Delphine Schrank and Mary Beth Sheridan ●  Read more »