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Covid 19 coronavirus: One year, 400,000 deaths - how the US guaranteed its own failure

By Sarah Mervosh, Mike Baker, Patricia Mazzei and Mark Walker
New York Times·
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Covid 19 coronavirus: One year, 400,000 deaths - how the US guaranteed its own failure
People walk to the bus stop last month in Denver as two cases of a new Coronavirus variant were discovered in the state. Photo / Daniel Brenner, The New York Times

After the White House declined to pursue a unified national strategy, governors faced off against lobbyists, health experts and a restless public consumed by misinformation.

The path to beating the coronavirus was clear, but Kelley Vollmar had never felt so helpless.

As the top health official in Missouri's Jefferson County,

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