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    This Is Only Going to Get Worse

    The United States is entering a long, dark period, and the pandemic is already breaking records from the spring.
    by The COVID Tracking Project Dec 10, 2020 4 minutes
    Source: Paul Bersebach / Getty / The Atlantic

    By nearly all measures, it has been a horrible week, a horrible month (10 days in), and a horrible year. The United States this week set records in all three metrics that gauge the pandemic’s severity, with a total of 1.4 million new cases and 15,966 deaths. Yesterday, states and territories reported 3,088 deaths from COVID-19—a record no one wanted to see—and the average number of deaths per day over the past 7 days exceeded 2,000, surpassing the highest average we saw in the spring’s deadly first surge. More than 106,000 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19.

    If the patterns we’ve traced since the

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