A year ago today, the WHO first learned of a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China of "unknown" origin. Here's the impact of that fateful day, by the numbers.
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Read more ...China Approves Its Homegrown COVID-19 Vaccine For Widespread Use National News
The state-owned Sinopharm says its vaccine has a 79% efficacy rate — surpassing the widely accepted standard of 50% efficacy.
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For people who are generally OK — healthy, employed — there's pressure to stay grateful. But those feeling so-called smaller losses also need to grieve and "stop pretending" they're not hurting.
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Read more ...Health Care Workers Try To Bring COVID-19 Patients Joy, Less Isolation As Life Ends National News
Medical staff are liaisons to the sick and dying for relatives not allowed at bedsides. The emotional toil at one Montana hospital is a case study of what caregivers are grappling with across the U.S.
Read more ...A 2020 Surprise: Fewer Absentee Ballots Rejections Than Expected National News
With many more people voting by mail this fall, election officials feared that millions of ballots would be rejected in the general election. Instead, rejection rates went down across the country.
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