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TomCADem

(17,390 posts) Fri Aug 28, 2020, 10:07 PM Aug 2020

U.S. coronavirus deaths could top 300,000 by December

The disease that Trump and the rest of the right wing have repeatedly dismissed is set to be the number cause of death this year in the U.S.

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U.S. coronavirus deaths could top 300,000 by December (Original Post) TomCADem Aug 2020 OP

2020 US deaths up 19%, global average 4% Cicada Aug 2020 #1

Cicada

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1. 2020 US deaths up 19%, global average 4%

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Fri Aug 28, 2020, 11:58 PM

Aug 2020

In the Spanish flu the second wave killed twice as many as the first wave. Here in the first wave, under Trump, we are doing five times as badly as the rest of the world. Keeping Trump in charge to deal with the second wave seems dangerous to me.

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