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| 9.22.20

U.S. Reaches 200,000 Deaths From COVID-19

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  • The U.S. has reached another tragic milestone: 200,000 deaths from COVID-19, according to data from Johns Hopkins University (JHU).
  • The death toll has passed 200,005, according to the recent count by JHU's coronavirus resource center.
  • More than 6.8 million people are known to have been infected across the nation, more than in any other country. California has most coronavirus cases, followed by Texas and Florida
  • In March, President Donald Trump said if the deaths were between 100,000 and 200,000, America would have done a "very good job."
  • Presidential candidate Joe Biden has accused Trump of “almost criminal” failures.
  • Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), recently told a Senate panel that it could take a year before a COVID-19 will be “generally available to the American public."

—Josh Herman