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Americans went to the polls Tuesday under the shadow of a resurging pandemic, with an alarming increase in cases nationwide and the number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 reaching record highs in a growing number of states.

As the coronavirus pandemic surges across the nation and infections and hospitalizations rise, medical administrators are scrambling to find enough nursing help — especially in rural areas and at small hospitals.

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, children are dealing with another crisis. Injuries are the leading cause of death and disability to U.S. children from 1 to 18 years old. Every day, 20 children die from preventable injuries, resulting in more deaths than all other diseases combined.

If Donald Trump’s “world-class” treatment for COVID-19 at Walter Reed Medical Center has shown us anything, it is the unequal treatment Americans with the disease have received for their illness. Trump received the best experimental drugs, constant monitoring, and clearly cossetted surroundings — a lot more comfortable than Americans who died at New York City’s Javits Center field hospital or at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, where nurses begged for ventilators and one ER doctor pleaded , “We don’t have the tools that we need.”

A new wave of lockdowns and business closings swept across France, Germany and other places in Europe on Wednesday as surging coronavirus infections there and in the U.S. wipe out months of progress against the scourge on two continents.