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<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: Missouri Is a Warning

The Delta bump is here. For hospital workers, that means reliving a nightmare. Then: recommendations for the weekend.

In Missouri, the reprieve was brief. Now the hospitals are full again—some fuller than they were last time.

My colleague Ed Yong has a wrenching new, where unvaccinated communities are being pummeled by the Delta variant. The majority of hospitalized people had not gotten their shots.

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