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Inside India's coronavirus crisis

Chris Livesay continues to report from India where coronavirus infections hit another grim global record on Thursday as more than 412,000 new cases were reported. Nearly 4,000 new deaths were also reported but experts continue to suggest the true numbers are likely far higher. CBS News speaks to epidemiologist Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan who said the country needs to ramp up vaccine production five-fold or else the virus will continue to be a threat to the world.

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New global initiative to track variants

Dr. David Agus joins "CBS This Morning" in Studio 57 to announce a new partnership between his Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's Institute for Global Change. The Global Health Security Consortium, which also involves Oxford University scientists, wants to help world leaders fight COVID-19. Their first project is a new plan to better track the coronavirus variants using genomic sequencing.

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Anti-Asian hate crimes surge in several U.S. cities

A new report confirms that hate crimes against the Asian community have surged across several of the nation's major cities. The data comes from California State University, San Bernardino's Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism. It found a 169% increase in anti-Asian hate crimes in 15 cities during the first quarter of 2021. Angie Chung, an associate professor of sociology at the University at Albany, joins CBSN's Lana Zak to discuss.

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