"... the nation’s current baseline of 35,000 to 40,000 cases a day is too high.This high baseline, “ultimately – some will lead to hospitalizations, and those will lead to death,” he said. “The idea of 200,000 deaths is really very sobering and in some respects, stunning.”
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