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the United States reported its co VID 19 death toll crossed the staggering half million mark on Monday, nearly a year after the novel Coronavirus Pandemic upended the nation.
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It's going to disappear one day.
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It's like a miracle it will disappear, Dr Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious diseases expert, on Sunday told CNN quote.
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It's nothing like we've ever been through in the last 102 years since the 1918 influenza pandemic.
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It really is a terrible situation that we've been through and that we're still going through.
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Case rates in the US have declined markedly to their lowest levels since the Thanksgiving holidays.
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But Fauci told CNN quote.
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We want to get that baseline really, really, really low before we start thinking that we're out of the woods.
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He said Americans may still need to wear masks in 2022.
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At the same time, prevention measures are being relaxed again.
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New variants of the virus are emerging and just 15% of the U.
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S has so far received a vaccination.
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The Centers for Disease Control on Sunday reported a little over 60 million Americans have gotten at least one shot of a Covad 19 vaccine, about 19 million have received a second dose.
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President Joe Biden said last week he was confident the U.
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S would have hundreds of millions of doses by summer.
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We'll have ordered much of what you have been distributed over 600 million doses by the end of July.
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July 29th is expected date, I believe, will be approaching normalcy by the end of this year.
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God willing, this Christmas will be different than last.
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More than 28 million covert cases have rocked the United States.
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The virus took a full year off the nation's average life expectancy, the biggest decline since World War Two.