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Just a few weeks after President Joe Biden celebrated Independence Day on the South Lawn of the White House, declaring a major victory in the battle against the coronavirus pandemic, the nation is in retreat yet again.
Cases and hospitalizations are climbing in every state across the U.S. as warning bells sound about the ultra-contagious delta variant that spreads at the fastest clip of any mutation seen yet.
It has led to sweeping changes in public health guidelines, as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced new recommendations for mask-wearing last week, and a wave of COVID-19 vaccine mandates flooded the tech industry, the public sector, the health care industry and higher education.