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It’s easy to feel as if the world is falling apart. The Connection features wide-ranging conversations about the bonds that hold us together, the forces that drive us apart, the conflicts that keep us from exploring life’s possibilities and the qualities that make us unique and human.

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A mobile COVID-19 vaccination and booster shot site operates out of a bus on 59th Street south of Central Park as patients wait on the sidewalk, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, in New York. Health officials say multiple cases of the omicron coronavirus variant have been detected in New York, including a man who attended an anime convention in Manhattan in late November and tested positive for the variant when he returned home to Minnesota. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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Time for Safehouse to ask forgiveness, not permission, on Philly supervised injection site, experts say

Once the national leader in the charge to open a supervised injection site, the nonprofit group is mired in legal battles, with no clear path out.

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N.J.’s abortion bill would do more than codify Roe v. Wade

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Biden HIV/AIDS strategy calls racism ‘public health threat’

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Fauci: 1st U.S. case of COVID-19 omicron variant identified

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Philly health officials urge residents to take precautions against new omicron variant

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Kid vaccinations for COVID nearly doubled in Philly over the past two weeks

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National
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As U.S. races to detect and track omicron, patchwork surveillance makes that tough

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