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A majority of Americans in highly vaccinated counties now live in covid hot spots, according to Post analysis

But life in highly vaccinated states is still safer, with one third the new cases and one fourth the hospitalizations of low vaccinated states.

DeSantis criticizes masks, restrictions as coronavirus roars to record levels in Florida

Florida accounts for a fifth of all new U.S. coronavirus infections and current hospitalizations. It also illustrates a new dynamic in the pandemic now that vaccines are widely available: Some Republican leaders have decided new surges are tolerable an…

When delta strikes: Latest coronavirus surges grow faster, hit record heights in Louisiana, Florida

While much of the country wrestles with new masking guidance, public health authorities and doctors in the states hit hardest by the delta variant surge are confronting a new stage of the pandemic unlike anything they’ve seen.

Los Angeles County reimposes indoor mask mandate for all as coronavirus cases rise nationwide

The order to take effect late Saturday night in the county of 10 million people marks the most dramatic reversal of the country’s reopening this summer as experts fear a new wave of the virus.

The delta variant is ravaging this Missouri city. Many residents are still wary of vaccines.

Experts fear Springfield, Mo., is a harbinger of tensions to come as people refuse to get vaccinated sand downplay the pandemic even in the face of overwhelmed hospitals and preventable death.

Craving freedom from virus, U.S. heads into July 4 with sharply divided risk

More than half of Americans live in a county that has not met President Biden’s goal of 70 percent of adults receiving at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine by July 4, according to a Washington Post analysis. Those counties are seeing steeper in…

Los Angeles urges everyone to mask up because of delta variant — even the vaccinated

Los Angeles dropped its mask mandate for vaccinated people on June 15 but is asking everyone to put masks back on indoors, citing a growing share of new cases linked to the delta variant.

Los Angeles urges everyone to mask up because of delta variant — even the vaccinated

Los Angeles dropped its mask mandate for vaccinated people on June 15 but is asking everyone to put masks back on indoors, citing a growing share of new cases linked to the delta variant.

Americans re-emerge after pandemic isolation: ‘Like the end of prohibition’

Memorial Day kicked off a return to normalcy across the nation as many of the remaining coronavirus restrictions were lifted

Patients in India are desperate for care. This family turned to a doctor 7,700 miles away.

Doctors throughout the Indian diaspora, including in the United States, are trying to fill a medical void from afar through both organized and unofficial channels.