The situation has turned dire just as the Trump administration, in its final days, begins to see the fruits of perhaps its biggest coronavirus success, the Operation Warp Speed vaccine program
People protest the state lockdown in Huntington Beach, Calif., May 9, 2020. For nearly the entire pandemic, political polarization and a rejection of science have stymied the United States’ ability to control the coronavirus. (Bryan Denton/The New York Times)
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