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Health officials sound alarm on rising COVID cases | Afro

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has sounded the alarm about the increasing number of coronavirus deaths in the U.S. With approximately 273,000 reported deaths in 2020, Dr. Redfield said this week that the nation is on […]

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