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June 4, 2020

Trump's Coronavirus Testing Czar Is Standing Down as U.S. Death Toll Tops 107,000
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The death toll from COVID-19 in the United States now stands at over
107,000, with 1.85 million confirmed cases - though public health
officials say both those figures are significant undercounts. In a
majority of states, seven-day averages of new coronavirus cases are
either holding steady or rising. Meanwhile, the Trump administration's
top official leading federal coronavirus testing efforts, Admiral Brett
Giroir, said this week he will be "demobilized" from his role in
mid-June.


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