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Above: N., a sex worker at a bar in Pattaya, Thailand. The sex trade has offered good-paying jobs for many people from rural areas who were facing a life of tending rice paddies and digging up cassava roots.

How The Pandemic Has Upended The Lives Of Thailand's Sex Workers

Many of them left rural areas to earn their living in the sex trade and send money home to help their families. COVID-19 restrictions have changed all that.

India Has COVID-19 Vaccine Doses. But Will The Country's Population Take Them?

By July, India aims to vaccinate 300 million of its 1.4 billion people. But with COVID-19 infections already declining, some Indians don't see the need — and clinics have more doses than recipients.

Education Pick Miguel Cardona Is New To Washington — But Not To Classrooms

President Biden's education nominee has spent most of his professional career as a public school educator in the city where he grew up: Meriden, Conn.

Education Pick Miguel Cardona Is New To Washington — But Not To Classrooms

President Biden's education nominee has spent most of his professional career as a public school educator in the city where he grew up: Meriden, Conn.

Russia's Sputnik vaccine was found to be effective in preventing COVID-19 symptoms, according to a new study published in The Lancet medical journal. Here, a patient gets a shot of the Russian vaccine at Sochi's City Hospital No 4.

Russia's Sputnik Vaccine Is Reported To Be 92% Effective Against COVID-19

The findings stand to add legitimacy to the Sputnik vaccine, which was met with skepticism last August when the Russian government touted its move to formally register the world's first vaccine.

A mural in New Delhi is part of public health messaging in India. The country has seen a dramatic decline in new cases since fall, but researchers aren't sure why.

The Mystery Of India's Plummeting COVID-19 Cases

From 100,000 cases a day in September, India is now down to about 10,000 a day. Is it climate? Demographics? Mask mandates? Scientists are looking for answers.

Butch Bowers speaks during a news conference at the State House in Columbia, S.C., on Sept. 10, 2009. It's up to the South Carolina elections and ethics lawyer to defend former President Donald Trump at the U.S. Senate impeachment trial.

Who Are The Lawyers Defending Trump In His 2nd Impeachment Trial?

Among the fairly unknown team from South Carolina is Butch Bowers, who represents public officials in ethics cases. A first for him, he has to defend the former president in a trial unlike any other.

Tiger Woods plays a shot from a bunker on the eighth hole of the Torrey Pines North Course during the first round of The Farmers Insurance golf tournament in San Diego, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020.

Rain Forecast For Second Round Of Farmers Insurance Open

American Patrick Reed and Alex Noren of Sweden share a one-shot lead over American Scottie Scheffler entering Friday's second round of the $7.5 million Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines Golf Course with rain threatening to interrupt play.

The Khaliq Dina Hall and Library building in Karachi, Pakistan, has been converted into a COVID-19 vaccination center.

Pakistan's Vaccine Worries: Rich People And Conspiracy Theorists

The fifth most populous country has put strategies in place to address anti-vaccine sentiment and prevent elites from using their influence to obtain government vaccines.

Nurse Vash Deelchand inoculated Kate Bingham, chair of the U.K. government's vaccine task force, with a Novavax vaccine at the Royal Free Hospital in London in October.

Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine Effective, But Less So Against Variant In South Africa

Novavax says its COVID-19 vaccine is 89% effective at preventing illness, according to an interim analysis of a U.K. study. But the vaccine wasn't as effective against some viral variants.

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