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The recent Omicron variant surge in Hong Kong came with a mortality rate among the world's highest yet in the pandemic, a troubling development in a region known for its strong pandemic measures, and today researchers from the United States, Hong Kong, and China who dug into the data suggest that vaccination lapses in older people played a major role. The team published its findings today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) . In other developments, China's surge continued, prompting more locations to tighten their measures, and in the United States, COVID-19 levels are rising again in the East....
