Covid
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Health
The Coronavirus May Spread From Corpses, Scientists Report
Family members and health care workers should take precautions, experts said.
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World
An Unvaccinated Military Puts Our National Security at Risk
Ninety-eight percent of the U.S. military is vaccinated against Covid-19. That success is due, in large part, to a summer of 2021 decision by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin that mandatory vaccination was “necessary to protect the force and defend ...
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World
Xi Jinping’s Covid Crisis Is Really an Opportunity
The public discontent vented in bold demonstrations last month against China’s Covid containment policies represents the greatest domestic crisis President Xi Jinping has faced in his decade in power. His government quickly smothered the protests. It ...
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World
Xi Jinping’s Covid Crisis Is Really an Opportunity
The public discontent vented in bold demonstrations last month against China’s Covid containment policies represents the greatest domestic crisis President Xi Jinping has faced in his decade in power. His government quickly smothered the protests. It ...
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Health
Long Covid Has Played Role in More Than 3,500 Deaths in U.S., C.D.C. Says
The tally is less than 1 percent of all deaths linked to the coronavirus, but it shows that it is possible to die from lingering symptoms after infection.
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World
How Will China Fare With Covid? ‘Meaningless’ Data Clouds the Picture.
Despite assurances that the situation is under control, information on infections has become more opaque now that Beijing has rolled back pandemic restrictions.
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World
As Covid Spreads Fast, Beijing Isn’t in Lockdown. But It Feels Like It.
Almost no one is venturing out even after an easing of pandemic measures. Cold and flu medicines are scarce, but food supplies appear adequate.
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World
‘It Doesn’t Hurt at All’: In China’s New Covid Strategy, Vaccines Matter
As the government drops its restrictions, it not only needs to convince people that the virus is nothing to fear, but also that inoculations are essential.
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World
A Contagion the U.S. and China Both Fear: Each Other
For decades, the United States and China have each treated the other’s ideology as a kind of infection. Then came an actual virus. The pandemic has been a testing ground for governments. Societies that prize individual rights and civil liberties ...
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World
China’s Looming ‘Tsunami’ of Covid Cases Will Test Its Hospitals
To conserve resources for the severely ill, the government is urging residents not to seek help unless necessary. But the pivot has left many confused and anxious.