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<div class="gmail-zn-body__paragraph gmail-speakable"><font size="4">"The US could nearly double its
current numbers -- about 12.4 million reported infections -- by January
20, according to the Washington University in St. Louis forecasting
model.</font></div><div class="gmail-zn-body__paragraph gmail-speakable"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail-zn-body__paragraph gmail-speakable"><font size="4">The prediction
comes as Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations nationwide are exploding,
with more than 3.1 million infections reported in the US since the start
of November -- the most reported in a single month ever.</font></div><font size="4">
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</font><div class="gmail-zn-body__paragraph"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail-zn-body__paragraph"><font size="4">And as numbers continue to rise,
hundreds more Americans will lose their lives to the virus each day.
More than 10,000 people have died in just the past week -- many of them
alone and without the chance to say goodbye to their loved ones. </font></div><div class="gmail-zn-body__paragraph"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail-zn-body__paragraph"><font size="4">More
than 257,600 people have died in the US since the pandemic's start --
more than any other country by far. And another 140,000 could die over
the next two months, according <a href="https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america?view=social-distancing&tab=trend" target="_blank">to projections </a>from the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation." </font></div>
</div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><font size="4"><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/24/health/us-coronavirus-tuesday/index.html">https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/24/health/us-coronavirus-tuesday/index.html</a></font></div>