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Host Will Michaels gets an update on the Omicron surge from WUNC reporter Jason deBruyn, and then explores how the state is responding with Kody Kinsley, the new secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.

The last year continued to bring deep-seated issues of systemic racism and inequality to the surface. Oh, and there was also a pandemic. But despite its challenges, 2021 still had cause for celebration.

Nearly 20,000 North Carolinians have died of complications from COVID-19. Among them are caregivers; people whom others - including their children - depended on for their own health and safety, but who were fatally sickened by a relentless virus.

Tested takes a look back at the year in military stories from North Carolina, including the end of the nation's longest war.

Tested takes a look back at what happened this year in environmental news in North Carolina.

A year-end-sports review typically revolves around remembering the highs and lows of what happened on a field, or a court, or a pitch, but this year, the most compelling and noteworthy sports events in North Carolina happened when two men in their 70s decided to make some life changes.

Across the nation, we've seen a spike in book challenges and bans in both school and public libraries in the last six months, mostly targeting books that center race and LGBT identity. At the end of 2021, Wake County had its own high-profile censorship controversy.

At this point in the pandemic, health care workers across the country are arguably under more pressure than ever. Some are getting sick themselves or burning out and leaving. But there are signs that COVID trends could turn for the better soon.

As a major redistricting cases lands before the North Carolina supreme court, calls are growing louder for some justices to recuse themselves. Today on Tested, we are highlighting an episode of the WUNC Politics Podcast in which three former state judges talk about the issue of recusal - and the importance of judicial independence.

Depending on where you live, your community may have ended its mandate to wear a mask in public. But the pandemic isn't over and vulnerable people can still get sick or die. So what is our responsibility to the greater good?