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FILE - Maya Goode, a COVID-19 technician, performs a test on Jessica Sanchez outside Asthenis Pharmacy in Providence, R.I., Dec. 7, 2021. Scientists are seeing signals that COVID-19′s alarming omicron wave may have peaked in Britain and is about to do the same in the U.S., at which point cases may start dropping off dramatically. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

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Omicron may be headed for rapid drop in US, Britain

by Maria Cheng Associated Press, and Carla K. Johnson Associated PressJanuary 11, 2022

In this photo provided by the University of Maryland School of Medicine, members of the surgical team show the pig heart for transplant into patient David Bennett in Baltimore on Friday, Jan. 7, 2022. On Monday, Jan. 10, 2022 the hospital said that he's doing well three days after the highly experimental surgery. (Mark Teske/University of Maryland School of Medicine via AP)

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US surgeons transplant pig heart into man

by Carla K. Johnson Associated PressJanuary 10, 2022

FILE - A man is swabbed for COVID-19 at a walk-up testing site at Farragut Square on Dec. 23, 2021, just blocks from the White House in Washington. The explosive increase in U.S. coronavirus case counts is raising alarm, but some experts believe the focus should instead be on COVID-19 hospital admissions. And those aren't climbing as fast. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File )

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Hospital admissions, rather than COVID case counts, may be the number to watch

by Carla K. Johnson Associated PressJanuary 4, 2022

People wear face mask to protect against the coronavirus at the public transport station Friedrichstrasse in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. According to local authorities wearing face masks mandatory in public transport and passengers need to be vaccinated, recovered or tested negative of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

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Omicron variant turns up in Brazil, Japan

by Raf Casert Associated Press, and Carla K. Johnson Associated PressNovember 30, 2021

In this September 2021 photo provided by NYU Langone Health, a surgical team at the hospital in New York examines a pig kidney attached to the body of a deceased recipient for any signs of rejection. From left are Drs. Zoe A. Stewart-Lewis, Robert A. Montgomery, Bonnie E. Lonze and Jeffrey Stern. The test was a step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants. (Joe Carrotta/NYU Langone Health via AP)

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Pig-to-human transplants come step closer

by Carla K. Johnson Associated PressOctober 20, 2021

FILE - In this April 22, 2020, file photo, pallbearers, who were among only 10 allowed mourners, walk the casket for internment at the funeral for Larry Hammond, who died from the coronavirus, at Mount Olivet Cemetery in New Orleans. Government health officials say Native Americans, Latinos and Black people are two to three times more likely than whites to die of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

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Racial gaps persist in virus deaths

by Carla K. Johnson Associated Press, Olga R. Rodriguez Associated Press, and Angeliki Kastanis Associated PressJune 14, 2021

FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2021, file photo, a senior receives a COVID-19 vaccine from a healthcare worker after arriving on a bus to a vaccination site at Anquan Boldin Stadium in Pahokee, Fla. COVID-19 hospitalizations are plunging among older Americans. The falling numbers show the country’s vaccination strategy is working, pushing deaths lower and easing pressure on the frayed hospital system. (Greg Lovett/The Palm Beach Post via AP, File)

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Hospitalizations tumble among US senior citizens

by Matthew Perrone Associated Press, and Carla K. Johnson Associated PressApril 22, 2021

Anita Shetty, left, vaccinates Doris Lucas with a Pfizer vaccine Tuesday in Atlanta.

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Brighter outlook for US as vaccinations rise and deaths fall

by Julie Watson Associated Press, and Carla K. Johnson Associated PressMarch 24, 2021

FILE - In this March 9, 2021, file photo, Army health specialists fill syringes with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in Miami. Despite the clamor to speed up the U.S. vaccination drive against COVID-19, the first three months of the rollout suggest faster is not necessarily better. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier, File)

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Rapid vaccine rollout backfired in some US states

by Carla K. Johnson Associated Press, and Nicky Forster Associated PressMarch 21, 2021

Two nurses put a ventilator on a patient in a COVID-19 unit at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, Calif., Jan. 7. U.S. hospital intensive care units in many parts of the country are straining under record numbers of COVID-19 patients.

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Virus strains ICUs for 2 in 5 Americans

by Carla K. Johnson Associated Press, and Nicky Forster Associated PressJanuary 24, 2021