Virus hot spots face strains on their healthcare systems, and hospitals in parts of Europe, even if not overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients, have fewer resources to devote to caring for people who have heart attacks or get into car accidents - a pattern also seen in U.S. The highly contagious Delta variant this year has made dramatic inroads even in countries like this one, which adopted early disease prevention protocols. Germany, which initially won plaudits for a sober, science-driven approach to containing coronavirus infections, has come to exemplify the painful reversal of fortune experienced by a handful of countries in a pandemic that has killed more than 5 million people worldwide.
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