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Health officials use wireless devices to register people with vaccine appointments at a mass COVID-19 vaccination site outside The Forum in Inglewood, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021. California has become the first state to record more than 3 million known coronavirus infections. That's according to a tally Monday by Johns Hopkins University. The grim milestone wasn't entirely unexpected in a state with 40 million residents but its speed was stunning. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
California sees hopeful signs as counties fight for vaccines

By Don Thompson Jan. 19, 2021 07:57 PM EST

A 60-year-old COVID-19 patient is pictured through the window of an ICU room at the La Timone hospital in Marseille, southern France, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)
A day in the life of a COVID ward: Just trying to hold on

By Lori Hinnant Nov. 17, 2020 12:20 AM EST

A hospital worker takes a break on an outdoor walkway as the day shift comes to an end and night falls upon the La Timone hospital in Marseille, southern France, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020. France is more than two weeks into its second coronavirus lockdown, and intensive care wards have been over 95% capacity for more than 10 days now. Associated Press journalists spent 24 hours with the intensive care team at La Timone, southern France's largest hospital, as they struggled to keep even one bed open for the influx of patients to come. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)
A lifetime of pain in 24 hours: A French ICU in the pandemic

By Lori Hinnant Nov. 17, 2020 12:14 AM EST

Associated Press writer Tamara Lush plays video games during the coronavirus outbreak with the news on the television in the background Oct. 26, 2020, in St. Petersburg, Fla. She started playing Plague, Inc. on her iPad in 2014. A pandemic could never happen in real life, she figured. But six years later, this Florida-based writer is seeking solace in virtual worlds, and found a poignant message in one Nintendo Switch game called Spiritfarer. (AP Photo/Tamara Lush)
VIRUS DIARY: In pandemic, seeking solace in virtual worlds

By Tamara Lush Nov. 13, 2020 09:26 AM EST

President-elect Joe Biden gestures on stage after speaking, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)
One week in an America riven by politics and the plague

By Jerry Schwartz Nov. 08, 2020 08:49 AM EST

A visitor casts a shadow while looking at Plymouth Rock, the traditional point of arrival of the Pilgrims on the Mayflower in 1620, in Plymouth, Mass., Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. Disease introduced by traders and settlers, either by happenstance or intention, played an important role in the conquest of Native peoples. And that inconvenient fact, well known to the Natives' descendants, is contrary to the traditional narrative of the "New World." (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Some see irony in virus' impact on Mayflower commemoration

By Allen G. Breed Sep. 22, 2020 09:29 AM EDT

The Mayflower II, a replica of the original Mayflower ship that brought the Pilgrims to America 400 year ago, is docked in Plymouth, Mass., days after returning home following extensive renovations, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. A disease outbreak that wiped out large numbers of the Native inhabitants of what is now New England gave the Pilgrims a beachhead in the "New World." So, some historians find it ironic that a pandemic has put many of the 400th anniversary commemorations of the Mayflower's landing on hold. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Some see irony in virus' impact on Mayflower commemoration

By Allen G. Breed Sep. 22, 2020 01:07 AM EDT

FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2018, file photo, an ambulance leaves Western State Hospital in Lakewood, Wash. As coronavirus cases spike at Washington state's largest psychiatric hospital, workers are pleading with officials to save them not just from the disease, but also from the violence that continues to plague the facility. (AP Photo/Martha Bellisle, File)
Assaults continue at Washington psychiatric hospital

By Martha Bellisle Sep. 11, 2020 10:51 AM EDT

Santa Fe man diagnosed with bubonic plague, is in recovery

Jul. 27, 2020 02:38 PM EDT
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico health officials say they have found a case of bubonic plague. The New Mexico Department of Health...

China's Inner Mongolia region reports bubonic plague case

Jul. 06, 2020 05:56 AM EDT
BEIJING (AP) — While China appears to have reduced coronavirus cases to near zero, other infectious threats remain, with local health authorities announcing a...

Gravedigger Thomas Cortez accompanies a casket as it's brought to the plot for burial at Hebrew Free Burial Association's Mount Richmond Cemetery in the Staten Island borough of New York, Wednesday April 8, 2020. The group serves Jews who mostly die with little or nothing. A century ago, it buried garment workers killed in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire and those who fell to the Spanish flu. More recently, it was Holocaust survivors who fled Europe. And now, those dying of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Cemetery races to keep up as New York virus deaths mount

By David Goldman And Matt Sedensky Apr. 21, 2020 03:11 AM EDT