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US Hits 7 Million Coronavirus Cases

The COVID-19 death toll is now over 200,000

NBCUniversal, Inc. A new study out of the University of Bern found that the number asymptomatic coronavirus cases is much lower than some previously estimated and that the majority of cases will include symptoms at some point in the infection.

Seven months after President Donald Trump praised the Chinese for how they were handling their COVID-19 outbreak and assured the American people that “we’re in great shape,” the nation hit 7 million confirmed cases of coronavirus, the latest NBC News figures showed Thursday.

With the COVID-19 death toll now over 200,000 and Trump accused of lying and misleading the American people about the danger, the governors of New York and Michigan called for a congressional investigation into whether the president knowingly impeded the pandemic response to protect his re-election chances.

Right now the U.S. accounts for over a fifth of the nearly 1 million deaths reported worldwide and over a fifth of the 32 million confirmed cases, according to the Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 dashboard.

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