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Italys pandemic survivors, one year later CBSNews © CBS News nembro-italy-1280.jpg At a nursing home in northern Italy, they were playing a memory-boosting game when correspondent Seth Doane visited this past week. But no one wants to remember a year ago, when 40 percent of the residents died from the coronavirus in a month. Replay Video UP NEXT Today, those in the facility have been vaccinated, and family visits have resumed, with precautions. Due to fears from COVID varia...

Vaccine Skepticism Helped Put Them in Power. Can They Inoculate Italy? The Five Star Movement’s long history of sowing doubt about vaccines may have made Italy’s mass inoculation program that much harder. The irony is not lost on Italians. Vaccinations underway at a hospital in Piacenza, Italy, last month.Credit...Alessandro Grassani for The New York Times Published Jan. 12, 2021Updated Jan. 26, 2021 ROME — Over a decade ago, an activist in Italy’s Five Star Movement wrote to the nascen...