Covid toll

Soul-crushing: US COVID-19 deaths are topping 1,900 a day

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Soul-crushing: US COVID-19 deaths are topping 1,900 a day

COVID-19 deaths in the US have climbed to an average of more than 1,900 a day for the first time since early March, with experts saying the virus is preying largely on a distinct group — 71 million unvaccinated Americans. The increasingly lethal turn has filled hospitals, complicated the start of the school year, delayed … Read more

‘You can’t trust anyone’: Russia’s hidden COVID toll is an open secret

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‘You can’t trust anyone’: Russia’s hidden COVID toll is an open secret

She burst into the hospital morgue, and the bodies were everywhere, about a dozen of them in black bags on stretchers. She headed straight for the autopsy room, pleading with the guard in a black jacket, “Can I speak to the doctor who opened up my father?” Olga Kagarlitskaya’s father had been hospitalized weeks earlier … Read more