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Idlib struggles to get lifesaving aid amid COVID spike

Government shelling killed a dozen people in Syria’s northwest Idlib province Wednesday. Idlib is the final stronghold for rebels still fighting the Assad regime. But the province is also under attack from a different threat — its most severe wave of COVID-19. The delta variant is hitting hospitals already weakened by war. Nick Schifrin reports.