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Covid Ravages Poorer Countries, Rich Nations Spring Back to Life

• The contrast could hardly be sharper: Clubs and restaurants are reopening in the United States and Europe while people gasp for oxygen in India.
• But despite early vows, the developed world has done little to promote global vaccination, in what analysts call both a moral and epidemiological failure.

Delhi, India

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Nairobi, Kenya

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Hamtramck, Mich.

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Portland, Ore.

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Liverpool, England

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Las Vegas

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Nakhon Pathom, Thailand

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Rio de Janeiro

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Beirut, Lebanon

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Paris

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U.S. Birthrate Drops Again. The Pandemic May Be a Factor.

Births were down most sharply at the end of the year, when babies conceived at the start of the health crisis would have been born.