Nearly a year after COVID-19 vaccines were first administered in the United States, the country is returning to many of the hallmarks that defined earlier pandemic life: mask mandates, mass vaccination sites, crowded hospitals and a rising death toll.
Since then, more than 200 million others - more than 60% of the U.S. population - have gotten at least two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna
a requirement for face coverings inside businesses and venues that do not require proof of vaccination. Combating the virus has been complicated by its more aggressive mutations, including the currently dominant Delta variant and fast-spreading Omicron, which was first identified last month and has already been detected in nearly half of the 50 states.
Nurse Patricia Thomas stood by a dead patient she had treated, a white sheet over his body, a picture of his family at his feet. His relatives made the decision to take him off life support. He was not vaccinated. He had five children and 12 grandchildren. "The fuel for this fire, our case counts, is unvaccinated individuals,” New Mexico Acting Health Secretary David Scrase told reporters. "Our hospitals are in a really grave situation."
Shortly after the Omicron variant was detected in New Jersey, Governor Phil Murphy this week reopened one of the state's previously shuttered mass vaccination sites in an effort to encourage residents to get booster shots.
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