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A booster vaccine is administered on the Indonesian resort island of Bali. Sonny Tumbelaka/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A gull picks up a discarded protective face mask from the shoreline in the marina on August 11, 2020 in Dover, England. Leon Neal/Getty Images hide caption
A poster in Kolkata, India, from peak pandemic days sends a message to mask up. Now that the official COVID-19 global emergency is no longer in effect, some folks are thrilled to stop masking — but others wonder if it's a good idea to keep up certain precautions. NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption
It's COVID testing time at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, South Korea. Arrivals from China must now submit to a PCR test. Kim Jae-Hwan/SOPA Images/Sipa USA hide caption
Print a poster version of this comic to hang up on your fridge or give away to friends. Download the poster here. Malaka Gharib/ NPR hide caption
Pfizer's Paxlovid pills are considered the most effective treatment to prevent severe COVID. They're about to be sold in China. But they are reportedly underused in the U.S. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
The FDA recommends to take at least two COVID-19 antigen tests 48 hours apart before ruling out a possible infection. Justin Paget/Getty Images hide caption
The FDA says one home test is not enough if you've been exposed to someone with COVID or are experiencing COVID-like symptoms. That initial negative ... could turn positive a day or two later. Max Posner/NPR hide caption
Cracking a window can help reduce your risk of infection by COVID pathogens. Tanishka R./For NPR hide caption
A positive result on a home COVID test. If you catch it once, can you catch it again? Turns out the answer is: Yes. Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption
Journalists and politicians mingled at an afterparty following the White House Correspondents Dinner on April 30. Based on COVID cases among attendees at the main event, SARS-CoV-2 was mingling as well. Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/for The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption
Print and fold a zine version of this comic here. Here are directions on how to fold it. Malaka Gharib/ NPR hide caption
Some European countries, such as Spain, are making plans for the time they might be able to treat SARS-CoV-2 as an endemic disease — one that's always around but fairly predictable. But the World Health Organization cautions that the pandemic is not over. Above: Masked pedestrians in Barcelona, Spain, in July 2021. Joan Mateu/AP hide caption
A rapid antigen test shows a positive test result for COVID-19. Odd Andersen/AFP via Getty Images hide caption