You’re reading an excerpt from the Today’s WorldView newsletter.... Sign up to get the rest, including news from around the globe, interesting ideas and opinions to know sent to your inbox every weekday. For Americans, free rapid tests and high-quality masks are finally here.... Vaccine initiative Operation Warp Speed is estimated to have cost the U.S. taxpayers more than$ 14 billion....

constitutional right to abortion, courts in many other parts of the world have been moving in the

populations while other countries have yet to receive COVID-19 vaccines, the World Health Organization said

an otherwise gloomy December.... A year later, too many Americans remain unvaccinated and too many

The world’s largest experiment in driverless cars is underway on the busy streets of Wuhan, a city in central China with 11 million people, 4.5 million cars, eight-lane expressways and towering bridges over the muddy waters of the Yangtze River.A fleet of 500 taxis navigated by computers, often with no safety drivers in them for backup, buzz around.... The company that operates them, the tech giant Baidu, said last month that it would add a further 1, 000 of the so-called robot taxis in Wuhan.

In the shorter term, globally, it will be up to individuals as much as policymakers to make decisions that will help chart the virus’ course.“ I think everyone still needs to use their judgment.... Emily Landon, who leads infection control at the University of Chicago Medical Center, told The Associated Press.... “ You can try and make it political, make it about freedom, but it’s a virus....

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