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FILE - A basket of oysters is ready for packaging and delivery at Copps Island Oysters on Aug. 9, 2021, in Norwalk, Conn. Two Connecticut residents have died this summer from infections linked to a bacteria found in raw shellfish, the state Department of Public Health said Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023.(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Two Connecticut deaths linked to bacteria found in raw shellfish

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Connecticut DPH says data show vaccine breakthroughs rare

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Measles confirmed in case of unvaccinated Connecticut child

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Los Angeles County emergency medical technicians deliver patients for admission at the Ambulatory Care Center station at the MLK Community Medical Group hospital in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Backlogged cases push California COVID-19 deaths past 50,000

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Georgia refuses to reveal where new virus strain is lurking

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FILE - This Jan. 12, 2021, file photo provided by the LA County Dept. of Medical Examiner-Coroner shows National Guard members assisting with processing COVID-19 deaths and placing them into temporary storage at LA County Medical Examiner-Coroner Office in Los Angeles in Los Angeles. More than 500 people are dying each day in California because of the coronavirus. The death toll has prompted state officials to send more refrigerated trailers to local governments to act as makeshift morgues. State officials said Friday they have helped distribute 98 refrigerated trailers to help county coroners store dead bodies. California reported 669 COVID-19 deaths, the second-highest daily death count, on Saturday, Jan. 16, and the nation's most populous county announced it had detected its first case of a more transmissible strain of the coronavirus. Public health authorities in Los Angeles County confirmed its first case of the variant of COVID-19 first detected in the United Kingdom. It was identified in a man who recently spent time in the county. (LA County Dept. of Medical Examiner-Coroner via AP, File)

Rate of new virus infections falling, but deaths remain high

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People wait in their vehicles to monitor for adverse reactions to the shot, after being vaccinated 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, according to a tally Monday by Johns Hopkins University. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Despite reactions, California says virus vaccine can be used

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

The 73 crosses signifying COVID-19 deaths in Nevada County, sit on the hill next to Old Barn Storage Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021 in Grass Valley, Calif. (Elias Funez/The Union via AP)

California: OK to use Moderna vaccine after illness reports

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

FILE - This Jan. 12, 2021, file photo provided by the LA County Dept. of Medical Examiner-Coroner shows National Guard members assisting with processing COVID-19 deaths and placing them into temporary storage at LA County Medical Examiner-Coroner Office in Los Angeles in Los Angeles. More than 500 people are dying each day in California because of the coronavirus. The death toll has prompted state officials to send more refrigerated trailers to local governments to act as makeshift morgues. State officials said Friday they have helped distribute 98 refrigerated trailers to help county coroners store dead bodies. California reported 669 COVID-19 deaths, the second-highest daily death count, on Saturday, Jan. 16, and the nation's most populous county announced it had detected its first case of a more transmissible strain of the coronavirus. Public health authorities in Los Angeles County confirmed its first case of the variant of COVID-19 first detected in the United Kingdom. It was identified in a man who recently spent time in the county. (LA County Dept. of Medical Examiner-Coroner via AP, File)

California closes in on 3 million coronavirus cases

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Registered nurse Kyanna Barboza tends to her COVID-19 patient at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. The virus is surging in virtually every state. California is particularly hard hit, with skyrocketing deaths and infections threatening to force hospitals to ration care. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

California reports record 695 virus deaths in a day

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A sign is posted at Sunnyside Playground during the coronavirus outbreak in San Francisco, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020. California changed its rules overnight Wednesday to allow outdoors playgrounds to stay open in regions under strict stay-home orders. San Francisco Mayor London Breed applauded the change and said city playgrounds would reopen Thursday after shutting down earlier this week. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

13 counties in California moving into strict virus category

By DON THOMPSON and CHRISTOPHER WEBER - Associated Press

Review: Nursing homes with more staff had fewer COVID cases

By PAT EATON-ROBB and SUSAN HAIGH - Associated Press

A new COVID-19 unit at the Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville, Ga., is in the final stages of preparation for patient use on Monday, July 20, 2020. The unit, constructed from modular buildings by the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency went into operation Tuesday, July 21, 2020, amid high numbers of COVID-19 hospitalizations across the state. (Scott Rogers/The Gainesville Times via AP)

Data show Georgia hospitals groaning under COVID-19 cases

By JEFF AMY and BEN NADLER - Associated Press

FILE - This April 16, 2020 file photo shows the Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Columbus Junction, Iowa. One of the first coronavirus outbreaks at the Iowa meatpacking plant was more severe than previously known, with over twice as many workers becoming infected than the Iowa Department of Public Health publicly confirmed. The department announced at a May 5 news conference that 221 employees at the plant in Columbus Junction had tested positive for COVID-19. But records show that, days earlier, Tyson officials told workplace safety regulators that 522 plant employees had tested positive to their knowledge. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette via AP, File)

Outbreak at Iowa pork plant was larger than state reported

By RYAN J. FOLEY - Associated Press

A sign placed in front of the entrance to the Meriden Animal Hospital advises the public of new instructions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Monday, April 6, 2020. (Dave Zajac/Record-Journal via AP)

COVID-only nursing homes planned, workers say they need gear

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