Covid
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Health
Key Partner in Covax Will End Support for Middle-Income Nations
Many of the poorest countries will continue to get free Covid shots, but global demand for them has plummeted, driving a shift away from the goal of broad coverage.
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World
Covid Rates Are Climbing in Los Angeles, but Residents Are Weary
Los Angeles County may bring back a mask mandate if hospitalizations continue to increase.
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World
Beijing Braces for Covid Surge After China Lifts Pandemic Curbs
Residents in the capital city buy up at-home tests and fever medication following the government’s decision to ease its “zero Covid” policy.
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World
How Will China Turn Its Economy Back On? The World Is About to Find Out.
Strict “zero Covid” curbs have been smothering growth. After easing them, Beijing faces the twin challenges of rising caseloads and wary consumers.
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World
As Covid Cases Rise in a Weary Los Angeles, So Does Apathy
Hospitalizations and Covid cases have increased sharply in Los Angeles since Thanksgiving. But fear — and masks — are missing this time around.
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World
Xi Loosens Up. It Won’t Be Enough.
Xi Jinping may be the most powerful autocrat in the world, but he was forced this week to pirouette to meet the demands of ordinary Chinese fed up with his failed “zero Covid” strategy. Throngs of ordinary Chinese — “old hundred names” in Chinese ...
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World
What Has Changed About China’s ‘Zero Covid’ Policy
The Chinese government ordered officials to cut back on mass testing and hair-trigger regional lockdowns, in a pivot from stringent pandemic rules.
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World
China Eases ‘Zero Covid’ Restrictions in Victory for Protesters
Beijing’s costly policy of lockdowns has pummeled the world’s second-largest economy and set off mass public protests that were a rare challenge to China’s leader, Xi Jinping.
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World
A Key Piece of New York City’s Covid Response Is Closing as Cases Rise
The city’s Pandemic Response Lab, which provided mass testing, is shutting down due in part to the prevalence of at-home tests and a reduction in business.
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World
China’s Struggle With Covid Is Just Beginning
China’s leaders are in a dangerous dilemma. Their obsession with eliminating the coronavirus has spared the country the pandemic death rates suffered by other major countries, but at a steep cost: severe social and economic pain that led last weekend ...