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Virus Deaths Approach Spring Record Amid Changing U.S. Crisis

A patient is admitted to the COVID-19 ICU ward of United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Nov. 26, 2020. Months into the pandemic, doctors and nurses know more than ever about how to treat COVID-19 patients. But the death toll is once again closing in on the high-water mark, set on April 15, of 2,752 deaths in a single day. (Christopher Lee/The New York Times)