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            'Unfathomable': U.S. death toll from coronavirus hits 200,000




            Activists from the COVID Memorial Project mark the deaths of 200,000 lives lost in the U.S. to COVID-19 after placing thousands of small American flags on the grounds
            of the National Mall in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020.
                                                                                                                                            Associated Press

               By CARLA K. JOHNSON                           searcher, eight months after the scourge first  predicts the U.S. toll will double to 400,000 by
               AP Medical Writer                             reached  the  world's  richest  nation,  with  its  the end of the year as schools and colleges
               The  U.S.  death  toll  from  the  coronavirus  state-of-the-art  laboratories,  top-flight  scien-  reopen and cold weather sets in. A vaccine
               topped  200,000  Tuesday,  by  far  the  highest  tists and stockpiles of medical supplies.  is  unlikely  to  become  widely  available  until
               in  the  world,  hitting  the  once-unimaginable  The number of dead is equivalent to a 9/11 at-  2021.
               threshold six weeks before an election that is  tack every day for 67 days. It is roughly equal  “The idea of 200,000 deaths is really very so-
               certain to be a referendum in part on Presi-  to the population of Salt Lake City or Hunts-  bering,  in  some  respects  stunning,”  Dr.  An-
               dent Donald Trump's handling of the crisis.   ville, Alabama.                                thony Fauci, the government’s top infectious-
               "It  is  completely  unfathomable  that  we've  And  it  is  still  climbing.  Deaths  are  running  at  disease expert, said on CNN.
               reached  this  point,"  said  Jennifer  Nuzzo,  a  close to 770 a day on average, and a widely
               Johns  Hopkins  University  public  health  re-  cited model from the University of Washington                     Continued on next page
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