Prognosis
U.S. Hospital Crisis Eases; France to Relax Curbs: Virus Update
Residents wait in an observation area at a Covid-19 vaccination clinic in Mexico City, Mexico, on Jan. 19.
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The U.S. hospital-staffing shortage exacerbated by the latest Covid-19 wave is showing signs of easing, but many West Coast and rural states are still seeing the worst of it. San Francisco’s infections are falling rapidly from a peak a week and half ago.
France will relax some restrictions early next month in a bet the pandemic will recede thanks to faster inoculations and plans to shut the unvaccinated out of most social activities. Austrian lawmakers passed the European Union’s first law making coronavirus vaccinations mandatory.