'Enormous And Tragic': U.S. Has Lost More Than 200,000 People To COVID-19

By Bill Chappell

Published September 22, 2020 at 9:39 AM MDT

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The U.S. death toll has doubled since May. Some experts predict it could nearly double again before 2020 ends. "We are experiencing a tremendous amount of unnecessary suffering," one researcher says.

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Bill Chappell is a writer and editor on the News Desk in the heart of NPR's newsroom in Washington, D.C.

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