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As nation marks half a million deaths, concerns rise over new California coronavirus variant
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Romelia Navarro (right) is comforted by nurse Michele Younkin at the bedside of her dying husband in a Fullerton hospital.Jae C. Hong / Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
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Emergency medical workers Jacob Magoon, from left, Joshua Hammond and Thomas Hoang lift a patient onto a gurney in Placentia, Calif., Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021. EMTs and paramedics have always dealt with life and death — they make split-second decisions about patient care, which hospital to race to, the best and fastest way to save someone — and now they're just a breath away from becoming the patient themselves. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)Jae C. Hong / Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
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The mutated version of the virus, first identified in South Africa, was found in two cases in South Carolina
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A new variant of the coronavirus emerged Thursday in the United States, posing yet another public health challenge in a country already losing more than 3,000 people to COVID-19 every day.
The mutated version of the virus, first identified in South Africa, was found in two cases in South Carolina. Public health officials said it’s almost certain that there are more infections that have not been identified yet. They are also concerned that this version spreads more easily and that vaccines could be less effective against it.
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The real number of lives lost is believed to be much higher, in part because of deaths that were not accurately recorded as coronavirus-related during the early stages of the crisis
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Brittany Palomo was hired as a nurse in March, her parents tried to talk her out of it, fearful of the fast-spreading coronavirus. All the more reason, she told them, to start the career that had been her long-held dream.
The pandemic, though, is a nightmare — one that has now claimed 300,000 lives in the U.S. and counting.
“Wake up, my little girl, wake up!” Palomo’s mother,
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