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with Paulina Firozi It’s telling that even California is now struggling to contain the novel coronavirus. California’s leaders acted more swiftly and dramatically against the outbreak than in any other state. Yet those efforts haven’t shielded the state from an early-summer resurgence of the virus afflicting the southern and western parts of the United States. …

For generations, urinary tract infections, one of the world’s most common ailments, have been easily and quickly cured with a simple course of antibiotics. But there is growing evidence that the infections, which afflict millions of Americans a year, mostly women, are increasingly resistant to these medicines, turning a once-routine diagnosis into one that is …