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US death toll from coronavirus surges past 100,000

Carla Johnson, Susan Haigh and Lisa Marie Pane
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Hartford, Connecticut | The US surpassed a jarring milestone Wednesday in the coronavirus pandemic: 100,000 deaths.

That number is the best estimate and most assuredly doesn't account for all COVID-19 deaths. But it represents the stark reality that more Americans have died from the virus than from the Vietnam and Korean wars combined.

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