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Dispatches from a Pandemic: As Spain welcomes back tourists, this tiny island finds ‘hearts divided’ with hope and anxiety

On the tiny Balearic island of Formentera, sometimes called Ibiza’s sister island, Raquel Calafat has been working hard to get the hotel that her great-grandfather established in the 1950s ready to greet tourists, who have been eerily absent for months. Calafat speaks of “corazones divididos” — hearts divided — to …

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New York City welcomes more hospital beds, but still needs many more

A handful of white tents popped up in Central Park’s East Meadow on Sunday. The structures are Mount Sinai Hospital’s new 68-bed field hospital and are just one creative way that New York City is hoping to create 40,000 more hospital beds. Mayor Bill de Blasio estimates that the city …

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