- Record high of over 76,000 people hospitalised Wednesday
- Leaked report warns of ‘further deterioration’ of situation
As the US death toll from Covid-19 closed in on 250,000 on Wednesday, with a caseload above 11.3m and more than 161,000 new cases added the previous day, an internal White House taskforce report warned of “aggressive, unrelenting, broad community spread across the country, without evidence of improvement but, rather, further deterioration”.
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