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Covid’s toll in the US

In the US, more than 1.1 million people lost their lives to covid beginning in early 2020. There were 105 million reported cases, many of them repeat infections. The latest declaration will expire on May 11, after which covid will officially no longer be considered an emergency in the US.

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This doesn’t mean covid is over, of course—just much less common and deadly. At least 14,000 new cases were recorded in the country in the past week, leading to nearly 2,000 hospitalizations and 190 deaths, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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