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    As U.S. Reaches 250,000 Deaths From COVID-19, A Long Winter Is Coming

    Medical advances have reduced the infection fatality rate in the U.S. But experts warn that indoor gatherings, cold temperatures and pandemic fatigue augur dark months ahead.
    by Laurel Wamsley Nov 18, 2020 5 minutes
    Residents line up in their cars Tuesday at a coronavirus test center on the grounds of Miller Park in Milwaukee.

    The United States has surpassed yet another devastating milestone in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic: 250,000 Americans have now died from the disease. That's more than twice the number of U.S. service members killed in World War I.

    Coronavirus case numbers are exploding across the country at the beginning of what is shaping up to be a difficult winter of illness in America.

    "Unfortunately, we are entering what I think will be the worst stretch that we have experienced so far," says Caitlin Rivers, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. "We're seeing hot spots all across the country and new highs for the number of cases and hospitalizations."

    In the past week, 36 states and one territory set records for daily new confirmed cases, and 12 states saw a day with the highest number of new deaths.

    The virus in North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Wyoming, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska and Montana. More than 76,000 people are currently hospitalized with the virus, to the COVID Tracking Project.

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