Infections and hospitalizations in Michigan have risen sharply in recent weeks, giving it more recent cases per capita than any other state. Officials blame a more contagious variant and a premature return to prepandemic behaviors. “It makes me shudder,” a local health officer said.
The Biden administration announced an advertising campaign to promote the vaccines in communities where hesitancy remains high.
In London, bereaved families are filling a wall along the River Thames with 150,000 hand-painted red hearts — one for each life lost to Covid in Britain.
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