- New Year’s Day saw 160,606 new cases and 2,051 deaths
- Doctors warn they are at ‘breaking point’
- Hundreds of thousands more deaths possible in vaccine chaos
The US is braced for a post-holiday coronavirus surge as its death toll nears 350,000, with thousands more predicted to die in the coming month and doctors warning they are at “breaking point”.
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