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60 shares A patient (L) is watched by a medical assistant as she spits into a test tube for a COVID-19 saliva test on a roving bus in Saint-Etienne, France, on February 22, 2021. (Jean-Philippe Ksiazek/AFP) Data released Monday by the World Health Organization showed a global drop in new coronavirus cases for a sixth consecutive week, with COVID-19 death rates also ebbing. In the week beginning January 4, over 5 million new cases were detected worldwide, while this past week saw 2.4 milli...

‘A wakeup call’: How resilient new coronavirus variants could prolong the pandemic Andrew Romano It’s no secret that ending the coronavirus pandemic requires two things: mitigation and vaccination.  But the urgency of doing both — and doing them as completely and quickly as possible — dramatically increased this week as news broke that the so-called South African variant had finally arrived in the United States, with South Carolina officials reporting on Thursday Amer...

It took just 60 minutes at daybreak for the seven patients to die, asphyxiated as coronavirus swept back into the Brazilian Amazon with nightmarish force. “Today was one of the hardest days in all my years of public service. You feel so impotent,” sobbed Francisnalva Mendes, the health chief in the river town of Coari, as she remembered the moment on Tuesday when its hospital’s oxygen supply ran out. “We need to get back to the fight – to carry...