Intensive care units across the region are under growing strain even as some countries prepare to receive the vaccine.
Amid fears of the patchy distribution of shots and delays, the holiday season also threatens to bring more surges in the coming weeks.

Trump's last-day dilemma: stay and go to jail in shame, or flee to heroic exile in Israel
The chances that Donald Trump will remain a free man after today is almost zero, regardless of any evidence of wrong-doing. Whatever...