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When Did the Pandemic Become Real for You?
The World Health Organization declared the spread of the coronavirus a pandemic on March 11, 2020. But when was the instant you knew your life…
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Opinion | The Final Push to End the Coronavirus Pandemic in the U.S.
Vaccines have brought the United States tantalizingly close to crushing the coronavirus within its borders. After months of hiccups, some 1.4 million people are now…
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Russians Escape North Korea on a Hand-Pushed Railcar
Russia said some of its diplomats and their family members, including children, had used creative means to leave North Korea, which closed its borders over…
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D.C.’s Mayor Mourned Covid’s Unequal Toll. Her Sister Is the Latest Victim.
As the number of coronavirus deaths in the city reached 1,000 this week, three-fourths of the dead were Black. By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Campbell Robertson…
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U.K. Virus Variant Is Probably Deadlier, Scientists Say
LONDON — British government scientists are increasingly finding the coronavirus variant first detected in Britain to be deadlier than the original virus, a devastating trend…
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Inside a Nursing Home After the Vaccine: Joy, Relief and Game Night
A nursing home where vaccinations have finished offers a glimpse at what the other side of the pandemic might look like. By Sarah Mervosh Photographs…
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France Stalls Between Stubbornly High Infection Rates and Slow Vaccine Rollout
PONTOISE, France — In the town of Pontoise, which gently slopes upward from the Oise River about 15 miles northeast of Paris, Mayor Stéphanie Von…
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As Biden Pushes for Racial Equity in Vaccination, Data Is Lagging
WASHINGTON — Federal health officials are struggling to gather accurate data on the race and ethnicity of people being vaccinated against the coronavirus, hampering President…
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‘The Death Market’: Oxygen Shortage Leaves Mexicans to Die at Home
MEXICO CITY — Children call him begging for oxygen for their parents. Grandparents call gasping for air in the middle of the night. People with…
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A New Front in the Anti-Vaccine Fight Emerges in California
For months, far-right activists have rallied against masks and lockdowns imposed during the coronavirus pandemic. Now some protesters have shifted their focus to the Covid-19…
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Virus Surge in Portugal Puts Hospitals on the Brink
Portugal, struggling to contain a coronavirus outbreak that has led to the highest death rate in Europe, has rapidly filled the beds in intensive care…
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Opinion | ‘It’s Still Getting Worse.’ Inside Britain’s Vicious Second Wave.
In Britain, the coronavirus is taking an almost unbearable toll. When I visited Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England, last summer, everyone thought the worst…
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How a Potter’s Field Became a Civil Rights Leader’s Resting Place
In more normal times, Scott Green , a lifelong civil rights activist, may have had a ceremonious funeral followed by a burial in a military…
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