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A Dreadful New Peak for the American Pandemic

The country recorded more than 100,000 coronavirus cases on Wednesday—the highest single-day total since the pandemic began.
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The United States reported 103,087 cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, the highest single-day total on record, according to the COVID Tracking Project at . It marks the first time that the country—or any country in the world, for that matter—has documented more than 100,000 new cases in

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