Bay Briefing: 'A tricky time' as CA variant could threaten pandemic progress
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Romelia Navarro, right, is comforted by nurse Michele Younkin, left, as she weeps while sitting at the bedside of her dying husband, Antonio Navarro, in St. Jude Medical Center's COVID-19 unit in Fullerton, Calif., July 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)Jae C. Hong / Associated Press
Fast-moving variant threatens progress
The United States surpassed coronavirus 500,000 deaths on Monday, the same day that two teams of San Francisco scientists reported troubling findings that a California-bred variant is now dominant in many parts of the state, and it is more infectious than earlier versions of the virus.