Europe averted a Covid-19 collapse — here’s what the US could learn – CNN

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White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx speaks during a news conference with the coronavirus task force at the White House in Washington on Thursday, November 19. Birx became the first White House coronavirus task force official to speak at a briefing from the podium while wearing a face mask on Thursday.

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Medical workers and patients are seen at a temporary hospital for coronavirus patients in the Krylatskoye Ice Palace in Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, November 18. Russia says as of November 16, more than 33,000 people have died of Covid-19. But that number is disputed by critics who say the Kremlin is underreporting the numbers.

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Medical staff transport a patient to a waiting medical flight, to be evacuated to another hospital, at the Lyon-Bron Airport in France on Monday, November 16.

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Spc. Demetrie Barnett of the Nevada National Guard administers a Covid-19 test to North Las Vegas City Councilwoman Pamela Goynes-Brown during a preview of a free drive-through testing site in the parking garage of the Texas Station Gambling Hall & Hotel in Las Vegas on November 12.

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A resident of the Domenico Sartor nursing home in Castelfranco Veneto, near Venice, Italy, hugs her daughter, right, during a visit on November 11, through a plastic screen in a so-called hug room.

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A soldier wearing full PPE waits at a window for a colleague's swab as they practice for the arrival of members of the public inside a rapid testing center at a tennis center in Liverpool on November 6.

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A medical worker looks away as she provides care to a Covid-19 patient in the Private Hospital de la Loire in Saint-Etienne, France, November 6.

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Commuters ride a bus in Beijing during rush hour on Monday, October 26.

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A boy watches as a health worker tests someone for Covid-19 in Hyderabad, India, on Tuesday, October 27.

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People shop at an outside market in Berlin on October 27.

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A medic sits in an ambulance in Kommunarka, Russia, on October 27.

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Volunteers at a cemetery in Yangon, Myanmar, bury someone believed to have died from Covid-19.

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People wait in a line to vote early in New York City on Saturday, October 24. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the state of New York is allowing early voting for the first time.

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An oversized surgical mask is displayed on the front of a house in San Francisco. The homeowner put it there ahead of Halloween.

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A cyclist takes pictures of a public art project set up on the DC Armory Parade Ground in Washington, DC. An estimated 240,000 flags were planted to represent lives lost to Covid-19. The display, created by local artist Susanne Brennan Firstenberg, will be on display for two weeks.

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Medical staff use a biocontainment stretcher to transfer a Covid-19 patient to a hospital in Varese, Italy, on October 19.

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A dog is trained to sniff out Covid-19 at a national veterinary school in Paris on October 15.

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A health worker in Manila, Philippines, sits behind a booth October 6 during mass testing for public transportation drivers.

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A security guard gives hand sanitizer to students as they arrive at the Prabhat secondary school on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, on October 6.

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A man from the Mouride Brotherhood reads a book with poems written by Cheikh Amadou Bamba as he stands in line to enter the Grand Mosque of Touba in Touba, Senegal, on October 5.

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Tourists crowd together in Beijing as they move slowly on a section of the Great Wall of China on October 4. The scene would have been unthinkable just months ago.

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A paramedic adjusts a patient's face mask outside an Athens, Greece, nursing home where dozens of people tested positive for Covid-19.

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A student has her temperature checked before entering classes at a school in Thankot, Nepal, on September 30.

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A health worker tests a student for Covid-19 after classes started at a college in the Indian village of Jhargaon on September 30.

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Medical staff hold swabs for rapid Covid-19 tests at a high school in Rome on September 28.

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Medical residents sit in the middle of a street as they protest their working conditions in Barcelona, Spain, on September 28.

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Members of the LSU marching band sit apart from one another before a college football game in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on September 26.

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A grave digger in Jakarta, Indonesia, plants a cross in a public cemetery, part of which is reserved for suspected Covid-19 victims, on September 26.

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A cemetery worker in La Paz, Bolivia, pushes a cart with a plastic-wrapped coffin on September 23.

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An adviser waits for people behind a plastic glass screen during a job fair in Barcelona, Spain, on September 21.

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A woman watches the band Jikustik during a drive-in concert in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on September 20.

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Ultra-Orthodox Jews are separated by plastic shields as they pray in a synagogue in Bnei Brak, Israel, on September 18.

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A health worker in Hyderabad, India, takes a break in front of a fan on September 17.

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Brides and grooms wait for the Pope's arrival at the San Damaso courtyard in the Vatican on September 16.

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Maria Hernandez, top, embraces her aunt through a transparent curtain at a nursing home in San Salvador, El Salvador, on September 11.

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A coronavirus victim is buried at a cemetery in Jakarta, Indonesia, on September 8.

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Young students make sure they are spread out from one another as they stand in a line before entering a classroom in Pamplona, Spain, on September 7.

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A girl cries as she is tested for Covid-19 at a drive-thru testing station in East Jerusalem on September 6.

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People wear face masks and sit spread apart at the opening ceremony of the Venice Film Festival in Italy on September 2.

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Nuns of the Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Mother Teresa, wear masks and face shields as they distribute food to the poor and homeless in Kolkata, India, on August 26.

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Cemetery workers carry Wilson Gil's remains on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, on August 26. Gil died of complications related to Covid-19, according to family members.

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Workers in New Delhi prepare to cremate the body of a coronavirus victim on August 22.

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A health worker administers a Covid-19 test in the Indian village of Kusumpur on August 17.

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People gather in Little Venice on the Aegean Sea island of Mykonos, Greece, on August 16.

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Thousands of people gather for an electronic music festival at a water park in Wuhan, China, on August 15. The novel coronavirus was first reported in Wuhan late last year.

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Funeral workers in Peru's Uchumayo District bury a coffin in a massive burial ground for low-income people and unidentified victims of Covid-19.

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