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Covid Treatments Including Paxlovid Are Rationed as Cases Spike
At the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, scarce ventilators and protective equipment faced strict rationing. Today, as the…
Xi’an Is China’s Biggest Covid Challenge Since Wuhan
Every two days at the University of Xi’an in China, cleaners dressed in white hazmat suits taped tight to their…
India’s Rising Omicron Wave Brings a Grim Sense of Déjà Vu
NEW DELHI — When the Omicron coronavirus variant spread through India late in December, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the…
A New Ban on Surprise Medical Bills Starts This Week
Several studies found that around 20 percent of U.S. patients who had emergency care were treated by someone outside of…
Amid Omicron There’s Still Hope, an I.C.U. Doctor Says
Walking through the intensive care unit on one recent afternoon, I took in a familiar sight — half a dozen…
C.D.C. Shortens Covid Isolation Period for Health Care Workers
Given that health care workers are tested frequently, are largely vaccinated, and must be masked, “the chances of causing a…