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By BY JONATHAN CORUM AND CARL ZIMMER from NYT Health https://ift.tt/3neiJq0
Along with the case county, more than 346,000 Americans have now died of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. That is 77% more fatalities than Brazil, which ranks second globally with 194,949 deaths.