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My Emergency Room Is Full of Patients No Vaccine Can Help

Even with a speedy rollout, many Americans will die of the coronavirus before they can get vaccinated.
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After 10 months of witnessing the coronavirus’s destructive capacity, on December 16 I joined thousands of health-care workers across the country and received my initial dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. I felt hope for the first time since March, when COVID-19 patients started streaming into my emergency room. My colleagues and I would now have one more layer of protection in our fight against the

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