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Missouri County Sounds Alarm; Tokyo Cases Surge: Virus Update

WATCH: Dr. Amesh Adalja, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security senior scholar, looks at the future use of mRNA technology.(Source: Bloomberg)
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Health officials in southwestern Missouri asked the state to set up an emergency hospital to handle a surge in delta-variant cases that threatens to overwhelm health services. New York City’s marriage bureau will reopen on Monday, 16 months after the city closed the department at the start of the pandemic.

Most vaccinated Americans are unlikely to need Covid-19 booster shots for months, or even years, despite the rise of highly infectious variants and the continued spread of the virus, according to top scientists.