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Some corporations are opening up their doors to providing more support for child care. Evgeniia Siiankovskaia/Getty Images hide caption
A health care worker conducts a test at a drive-through COVID-19 testing site at Zoo Miami last Wednesday in Miami. In response to the increasing demand for COVID-19 tests, Miami-Dade County opened two new testing sites and expanded hours at the Zoo Miami testing location. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
These are the numbers health officials are watching at this point in the pandemic
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Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., listens during the House select committee hearing on the Jan. 6 attack on July 27, 2021. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption
A woman receives a booster shot at a pop-up vaccination clinic in Las Vegas on Dec. 21. Ethan Miller/Getty Images hide caption
Novak Djokovic will play in the 2022 Australian Open, after getting an exemption from vaccine requirements. He's seen here removing his mask at the 2021 ATP Cup at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne last February. Darrian Traynor/Getty Images hide caption
Washington Football Team fans cheer during a game against the Falcons in Atlanta in October 2021. Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images hide caption
Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrives on the red carpet for the Axel Springer media award in Berlin in 2020. Activists are appealing to Tesla to close a new showroom in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang, where officials are accused of abuses against mostly Muslim ethnic minorities. Hannibal Hanschke/AP file photo hide caption
Members of Women of the Wall gather around a Torah scroll the group smuggled in for their Rosh Hodesh prayers marking the new month, at the Western Wall where women are forbidden from reading from the Tora. Maya Alleruzzo/AP hide caption
Mayor Sokhary Chau addresses the assembly during the Lowell City Council swearing-in ceremony on Monday in Lowell, Mass. Julia Malakie/AP hide caption
Waukee School District teacher Liz Wagner, seen here in her home in Urbandale, Iowa, said last year she was on the front line of the COVID war. "Now I'm on the front line of the culture war, and I don't want to be there." Charlie Neibergall/AP hide caption
"Congressional offices, Committees, and Agencies should immediately review their operations to adopt a maximal telework posture to reduce in-person meetings and in-office activities to the maximum extent possible," attending physician Brain Monahan said on Monday. Pablo Porciuncula /AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Elizabeth Holmes walks into federal court in San Jose, Calif. Nic Coury/AP hide caption
Elizabeth Holmes verdict: Former Theranos CEO is found guilty on 4 counts
Icicles hang off the State Highway 195 sign in Feb. 2021 in Killeen, Texas. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
A Hollywood, Calif., classroom sits empty in August 2020. At least 3,229 schools around the U.S. announced they were canceling in-person learning as of Monday evening. Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images hide caption
Elizabeth Holmes walks into federal court in San Jose, Calif. Nic Coury/AP hide caption
Elizabeth Holmes trial: Jury is deadlocked on 3 of 11 fraud charges
New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner, left, takes a pen from then-presidential candidate Joe Biden after he filed to have his name listed on the New Hampshire primary ballot on Nov. 8, 2019. Charles Krupa/AP hide caption