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A majority of Americans going to work fear exposing their household to virus, poll finds
Nearly 1 in 3 Americans, more over half of those with jobs, have continued to leave the house for work at least once a week as states issued stay-at-home orders, the Washington Post-Ipsos poll also found.
Ousted official doubts U.S. ability to handle another virus wave
Republicans attacked Rick Bright, who told lawmakers that the government should not play down the possibility that a vaccine for mass distribution could take years to develop.
Emergency physician Alessandra Said dons personal protective equipment before attending to a patient with covid-19 in Manaus, Brazil. (Raphael Alves for The Post)
A woman falls to her knees behind a member of an emergency team that could not revive her elderly relative who went into cardiac arrest. (Raphael Alves for The Post)
After emergency personnel load this 78-year-old man into an ambulance, they will start searching for a hospital bed. (Raphael Alves for The Post)
Emergency physician Alessandra Said, exhausted, sighs after a visit with her mother, a cancer patient with covid-19. (Raphael Alves for The Post)
In Brazil, a dying man and a desperate search for an open bed
Brazil’s failure to provide enough hospital beds for its surging number of critical coronavirus patients is yielding increasingly grim results, particularly in Manaus, a city of 2 million people.
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