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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Melody Schreiber

Covid surges in US as unequal access plagues vaccination and treatment rates

A younger Black nurse with long thin braids, wearing a face shield, face mask and rubber gloves gives a shot in the elbow to an older Black woman wearing a red and black facemask and red top.
Hattie Pierce, 75, receives a booster shot from Dr Tiffany Taliaferro in Washington DC on 4 October 2021. Photograph: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty Images

Covid is surging across the US, with levels of the virus on track to exceed last summer’s wave nationally and approaching the peak of last winter’s wave in the west, according to wastewater data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Yet vaccination and antiviral uptake, plagued by inequitable access, have remained low, and other precautions like mask-wearing are being met with increasing resistance.

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