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Delta variant accounts for 58% of US infections; Missouri requests field hospital: COVID-19 updates Elinor Aspegren, Steven Vargas and Grace Hauck, USA TODAY COVID-19 fall surge begins early due to the rise of cases related to the Delta variant Replay Video UP NEXT Cases and deaths from COVID-19 rose in more than half of U.S. states over the past week as vaccination rates slow and the highly transmissible delta variant spreads across the globe. Forty-seven states reported more new COVID-19 cases last week than in the week before, and deaths rose in 30 states compared to a w...

'Just cruel at this point': Nursing homes push to reopen for visits, hugs after COVID-19 vaccine Letitia Stein, USA TODAY A Missouri man worried about his mother’s weight loss after she spent a year in a nursing home under COVID-19 lockdown without his daily peanut butter shakes.  In Florida, a devoted husband celebrated his final wedding anniversary on opposite sides of his wife’s nursing home window.  A woman in the Bronx, New York, blamed her mild heart attack on stressful months of separation from her mother.  “I couldn’t hug her for Mother’s Day, for the who...

USA TODAY A year after the nation first locked down, President Joe Biden has promised all Americans will be eligible for a vaccine by May 1, with the goal of friends and families being able to join together in small groups for Fourth of July celebrations. But in Italy, the reality of the pandemic stands in stark contrast. Much of the country was expected to go back under lockdown Monday, and the entire nation was expected to be under additional restrictions over Easter weekend. There, just under 2 million people – or roughly 3% of the population – have been fully vaccinated as of Sat...

'Just cruel at this point': Nursing homes push to reopen for visits, hugs after COVID-19 vaccine Letitia Stein, USA TODAY A Missouri man worried about his mother’s weight loss after she spent a year in a nursing home under COVID-19 lockdown without his daily peanut butter shakes.  In Florida, a devoted husband celebrated his final wedding anniversary on opposite sides of his wife’s nursing home window.  A woman in the Bronx, New York, blamed her mild heart attack on stressful months of separation from her mother.  “I couldn’t hug her for Mother’s Day, for the who...

How the CDC failed public health officials fighting the coronavirus Brett Murphy and Letitia Stein, USA TODAY © Pool, Getty Images WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 2: CDC Director Dr. Robert R. Redfield looks on while testifying at a Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Subcommittee hearing on manufacturing a Coronavirus vaccine on Capitol Hill on July 2, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Graeme Jennings-Pool/Getty Images) ORG XMIT: 775529558 ORIG FILE ID: 1224295799 The week America lost the fight against the new coronavirus, the nation’s premier ...