Up to 438,000 may be killed by Covid by end of the month, CDC predicts, but epidemiologists still see reason for optimism
More Americans are dying of Covid-19 than at any time during the pandemic, the most complex mass vaccination campaign in history is off to a rocky start, and more transmissible strains of the coronavirus are emergent. January is going to be a bleak month.
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