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Dr. Sanjay Gupta On The Battle Against Coronavirus: ‘We Will Get Through It’

Dr. Sanjay Gupta, chief medical correspondent for CNN, attends the Clinton Global Initiative, Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010, in New York. (Mark Lennihan/AP)

The World Health Organization announced this week the highest number of new COVID-19 cases in a single day since the pandemic began: 106,000.

In the U.S., deaths from the disease reached at least 95,000 with at least 15 states still showing increases. But there are bright spots, too: a promising vaccine, antibody and other drug trials, at least 15 states with decreasing cases and fledgling attempts to open the economy.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s chief medical correspondent, says more testing is going to reflect the increasing number of cases in some states, “but not entirely.” 

“I think what we’re seeing here is actually more people also becoming infected,” he says. “This is a snapshot in time from probably two or three weeks ago between the time people are exposed to the time that they get tested, the time they may develop symptoms, if they’re

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