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Frieden Explains What's Behind the Latest Covid Surge in the U.S.
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1:16Now PlayingThe U.S. is starting to see a rising death toll from its latest spate of Covid-19 cases, and it’s poised to get worse in the weeks to come.
The seven-day average of Covid-19 fatalities in America was 1,052 on Thursday, close to the highest since mid-August, according to Covid Tracking Project data. A consensus of models tracked by the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Reich Lab shows the daily pace poised to increase by about 200 by early December.
The surge in infections has now spread to 49 states, with some of the most alarming momentum in places such as New York state, where seven-day average cases are up 72% in the past week, third most in the nation, Covid Tracking data show. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said schools may end in-person classes as soon as Monday.
But today’s rising death tolls are still in large part driven by the Midwest and some hot spots that were starting to get bad in September and early October, including El Paso, Texas. Without those,
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