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Picking up where the Trump administration left off, Biden oversaw a massive effort to ramp up production and distribution of coronavirus vaccines that has resulted in 57 percent of U.S. adults receiving at least one dose just over a year after the U.S. locked down due to the virus.
However, the administration is limited in its ability to get as many Americans as possible vaccinated, something that is critical to moving the country toward a level of normalcy, and to usher the country and indeed the world past the pandemic.
A survey this week from the Kaiser Family Foundation found that only nine percent said they hadn t been vaccinated but planned to do so, suggesting it will be more difficult to reach a threshold in which 70 to 80 percent of the country has been vaccinated.
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NEW DELHI It was halfway down page eight, one ripple in a sea of grief. The obituary for Damyantiben Pithadiya, a 60-year-old mother of three, included a prayer for her to rest in peace. The memorial would be held by telephone considering the current circumstances, it said. Her death notice was one of more than 240 spread across seven pages in a local newspaper in the western Indian city of Rajkot one day in late April a fourfold increase from early this year. Yet the rising tide of pandemic deaths evident not only in obituaries but also at the city s crowded crematoriums was not reflected in the official data. According to the authorities, the number of deaths from COVID-19 in the city and its surrounding district on that day was 12.
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A team of researchers in rural Maharashtra state visits houses to track the spread of COVID-19 in India.
PHOTO: RAJA SENGUPTA
At a tiny rural hospital about 1 hour s drive northeast of Pune, India, in early April, workers loaded an SUV with coolers, syringes, vials, thermometers, and electronic tablets. They drove 20 minutes to the village of Karandi, slowing to pass caravans of migrant sugarcane cutters in ox carts. They spent more than an hour taking blood samples at a cluster of houses shared by three generations of one family. Later, the team would scour the blood for antibodies that indicate past run-ins with COVID-19.