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The US registered nearly 1,500 coronavirus deaths on Wednesday, making it the deadliest day of a pandemic since mid-May, according to the Washington Post. The figures include 105 deaths in Georgia, 342 in Texas, and 45 in North Carolina, ties to the one-day death record set by the state on July 29. The U.S. has now recorded more than 166,000 deaths from COVID-19 and close to 5.2 million infections, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker. De Peal reports that at a news conference Wednesday night, President Trump urged schools and businesses to reopen, saying “all schools should make plans to resume classes as soon as possible” and reiterate a threat to separate federal funds from schools that don will not reopen.
However, the actual death toll from coronavirus in the US may have already passed 200,000, according to a New York Times analysis of excessive deaths. De The time notes that there have been around 200,000 more deaths than normal nationwide since March, and the pattern of excessive deaths is following the path of the pandemic from the Northeast to the South and West, suggesting that the official death toll has the general effects from a very underestimation can be the virus. ” (Read more stories of coronavirus.)
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