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Worldometer (Nov 20, Friday): yesterday was an all-time pandemic record high of new cases in the U.S., : over 192 thousand new cases. There were  2,065 new deaths in the U.S yesterday, higher than on any day during the current third wave, the fall/winter wave, and higher than any day during the previous wave- the summer wave (second wave). The all-time pandemic record high of new deaths in the U.S. was on April 21, during the first/ Spring wave: 2,744 new deaths.

CNN, US Coronavirus hospitalizations hit record high as nation looks to a potential vaccine, Nov 20: ” Nearly 80,700 people were hospitalized with Covid-19 in the US on Thursday, an all-time high, according to the Covid Tracking Project…Over half of the country is now in the “red zone,” Dr. Deborah Birx, a White House Coronavirus Task Force member told CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta in an exclusive interview, warning that this surge was unlike those in the past.”

The Hill, Fauci gets frustrated: ‘Get rid of these ridiculous conspiracy theories’, Nov 20: “The nation’s leading infectious diseases expert, Anthony Fauci, voiced his frustrations about the spread of misinformation, saying, ‘Get rid of these ridiculous conspiracy theories.’… ‘When you ask me about frustration, which borders on pain, it’s that either people don’t want to look at the data or they look at the data and they say it’s fake. No, it isn’t fake. … This is a global issue,’ said Fauci.

“Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, noted that the U.S. has now seen 250,000 deaths from COVID-19. The nation has recorded more than 11 million cases. ‘I tell the people who deny or think that this is nothing, do you mean that every single country in Europe is doing the same thing, is making things up? They’re not. I mean, it’s so obvious,’ Fauci added… the nation is in the midst of a serious spike in COVID-19 cases that are likely to greatly add to the country’s death total before vaccines are widely available.”

anita