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First pandemic, then recession, now, Russia invades Ukraine. Anything else, world?

LOS ANGELES — Like many Americans, Marsha Delgado has endured two difficult years. The 50-year-old watched vulnerable patients at her Santa Ana radiology clinic struggle to recover from lung damage caused by COVID-19. She has clashed with patients who would not wear face masks. And she has not attended a family gathering for months because some relatives refused to get tested for the virus ...
Milana Stryhun, 18, left, and Anastasia Zahrai, 19, right, gather along with over 100 members of the Ukranian community to demonstrate outside the Federal Building in Westwood, California, on Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022.

LOS ANGELES — Like many Americans, Marsha Delgado has endured two difficult years.

The 50-year-old watched vulnerable patients at her Santa Ana radiology clinic struggle to recover from lung damage caused by COVID-19. She has clashed with patients who would not wear face masks. And she has not attended a family gathering for months because some relatives refused to get tested for the virus while she was being treated for metastatic breast cancer.

As case rates began to

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