US suffers bleak January as Covid rages and vaccination campaign falters

Up to 438,000 may be killed by Covid by end of the month, CDC predicts, but epidemiologists still see reason for optimism

More Americans are dying of Covid-19 than at any time during the pandemic, the most complex mass vaccination campaign in history is off to a rocky start, and more transmissible strains of the coronavirus are emergent. January is going to be a bleak month.

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