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TEL AVIV, Israel — Dr. Anthony Fauci has won the $1 million Dan David Prize for...

ksuadminFebruary 12, 2021 84 I go out on my bike. The streets and squares of my neighborhood in Barcelona are full, teeming with people. It’s noon, time for grocery shopping, Sunday prose and collecting the kids at school. The collision of micro-events vibrates at 440 Hz and, suddenly, I realize in a retinal flash a Great Truth: the rue de midi belongs to the elderly. On this sunny winter day, it is above all they who occupy the many benches along the way. These are the “iaios”, who gently push their shopping carts, greet each other, some with hats or berets, elegant, standing.

A COVID-19 variant first identified in Southern California appears to have spread to at least 19 states and several other countries, a study published Thursday suggests. The variant accounted for about 44% of Southern California cases as of late January, nearly double from a month earlier, the study said. It was first identified in a single case in July and reemerged during a holiday surge in cases in the Los Angeles area. More research is needed to determine if the variant spreads more easily than other COVID-19 variants or causes more disease, said study co-author Jasmine Plummer, a Cedars-...

MELBOURNE, Australia — Australia’s second-largest city will begin its third lockdown due to a rapidly spreading COVID-19 cluster centered on hotel quarantine.

MELBOURNE, Australia — Australia’s second-largest city will begin its third lockdown due to a rapidly spreading COVID-19 cluster centered on hotel quarantine.