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....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
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....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
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This article from the guardian was written in 2017:
The rise and fall of Milo Yiannopoulos – how a shallow actor played the bad guy for money
Like Donald Trump, Yiannopoulos grew out of a grotesque convergence of politics and the internet, and thrived by turning hate speech into showbusiness
Dorian Lynskey
Tue 21 Feb 2017 13.07 EST First published on Tue 21 Feb 2017 13.06 EST
Milo Yiannopoulos resigns from Breitbart News: ‘I am horrified by paedophilia’
So there is, after all, a line that you cannot cross and still be hailed by conservatives as a champion of free speech. That line isn’t Islamophobia, misogyny, transphobia or harassment. Milo Yiannopoulos, the journalist that Out magazine dubbed an “internet supervillain”, built his brand on those activities. Until Monday, he was flying high: a hefty book deal with Simon & Schuster, an invitation to speak at the American Conservative Union’s CPac conference and a recent appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher. But then a recording emerged of Yiannopoulos cheerfully defending relationships between older men and younger boys, and finally it turned out that free speech had limits. The book deal and CPac offer swiftly evaporated. The next day, he resigned his post as an editor at Breitbart, the far-right website where he was recruited by Donald Trump’s consigliere Steve Bannon, and where several staffers reportedly threatened to quit unless he was fired.
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In the incriminating clip, Yiannopoulos prefaces his remarks with a coy, “This is a controversial point of view, I accept”, this being his default shtick. Maher absurdly described him as “a young, gay, alive Christopher Hitchens” – a contrarian fly in the ointment, rattling smug liberal certainties – but Hitchens had wit, intellect and principle, while Yiannopoulos has only chutzpah and ruthless opportunism. Understanding Yiannopoulos requires a version of Occam’s Razor: the most obvious answer is the correct one. What does he actually believe in? Nothing except his own brand and the monetisable notoriety that fuels it. That’s Milo’s Razor. Understanding how he got this far is more unnerving.
Milo Yiannopoulos book deal cancelled after outrage over child abuse comments
Yiannopoulos was born Milo Hanrahan in Kent in 1984 and grew up in a financially comfortable but emotionally fraught family. He later adopted his beloved Greek grandmother’s surname, but prefers the pop-starry mononym Milo. On Twitter, before he was permanently banned last July, he operated as @nero. After dropping out of two universities – Manchester and Cambridge – he wrote for the Catholic Herald and covered technology for the Daily Telegraph. On the Telegraph’s blog pages, under editor Damian Thompson, he became a professional troll; a clickbait provocateur who hated the left more than he loved anything.
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In 2011, having left the Telegraph, Yiannopoulos co-founded the tech journalism website the Kernel. “Tech’s gadfly continues to provoke and irritate, often for its own sake” was Wired’s judgment, but that only helped Yiannopoulos paint himself as a thorn in the side of a complacent tech establishment. The more people he insulted, the more attention he got. But his vindictiveness wasn’t just an act. In 2013, the Kernel was successfully sued by former editor Jason Hesse for non-payment of wages and one female staffer publicly complained about similar treatment. In a vicious email, Yiannopoulos threatened to ruin her career and called her “a common prostitute”. Many profile-writers have noted that his critics won’t speak on the record for fear of vendettas. Iain Martin, the Telegraph’s former comment editor, remembered “talk of him being someone who should not be crossed” and was shocked by the cruelty of his mob-like followers, which included rape threats and doxing.
Yiannopoulos found his stepping stone to America in Gamergate, an online movement that claimed to campaign for ethics in videogame journalism while subjecting women in the industry to brutal harassment. Unlike older conservatives, Yiannopoulos understood what was bubbling up on platforms such as Reddit and 4chan: a new gamified form of hard-right discourse based not on ideas but on memes, harassment and “saying the unsayable”, driven by white male resentment toward minorities and so-called “social justice warriors”, the au courant name for political correctness. It didn’t matter that he had recently mocked gamers as “unemployed saddos living in their parents’ basements”. For Milo, Gamergate was an exciting new front in the culture wars and the career boost he craved.
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As an informal movement, Gamergate didn’t have a figurehead so Yiannopoulos gave himself the job and turned into an outlaw antihero. Gamergate’s activists and opponents both agreed that without his advocacy the movement would have fizzled out. Profile-writers and shows such as Newsnight expanded his celebrity beyond the internet. Young, handsome, charismatic and eloquent – the writer Laurie Penny called him “a charming devil and one of the worst people I know” – he was far more alluring to the media than, say, James Delingpole.
Milo Yiannopoulos speaking on campus
Milo Yiannopoulos speaking on campus at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado in January 2017. Photograph: Jeremy Papasso/AP
Yiannopoulos preached the topsy-turvy gospel of the “alt-right”: liberals, feminists and people of colour were the oppressors and bigotry was a rebel yell. “I always thought journalism was about sticking up for the many against the powerful few,” he told Fusion in 2015. Yet in the same interview he implied it was all a show: “I didn’t like me very much and so I created this comedy character. And now they’ve converged.” Whenever he gets into trouble, he blames the character. On Monday, he attributed his justification of child abuse to his “usual blend of British sarcasm, provocation and gallows humour”. Last year, he flippantly told Bloomberg Business Week: “I’m totally autistic or sociopathic. I guess I’m both.”
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In 2015 Yiannopoulos spotted his next opportunity, and perhaps a kindred spirit, in Donald Trump, a man he calls “Daddy”. (He rarely speaks to his own parents.) With Trump, the backlash against political correctness went nuclear and via Bannon’s Breitbart, Yiannopoulos became a far-right hero and gleeful scourge of liberal “snowflakes”. The Southern Poverty Law Center calls him “the person who propelled the alt-right movement into the mainstream”.
Most people who are no-platformed or shamed on Twitter didn’t set out to inspire outrage, but outrage is Yiannopoulos’s lifeblood; without it, he is nothing. He boasted that being banned from Twitter made him more famous than ever, and endeared himself to mainstream conservatives when protesters shut down his appearance at UC Berkeley on 1 February. (At previous campus events, he had targeted individual students for harassment.) Even Trump, the US’s first troll-in-chief, tweeted his support. CPac billed him as a “brave conservative standard-bearer” and an “important perspective”, not because he said anything valuable but because protesters hated him. That’s the level to which the debate over free speech has sunk.
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So what is his “important perspective”? What does he stand for? It’s telling that he was banned from Twitter (no easy feat) for ringleading a campaign of harassment against actor Leslie Jones for the crime of daring to appear in the female-led reboot of Ghostbusters – hardly a vital cause. He is a gay man who hates the gay rights movement. A libertarian who calls an authoritarian president “Daddy”. A vigorous opponent of Black Lives Matter who says he can’t be racist because “I just like fucking blacks”. A self-styled second-wave feminist who sells hoodies reading “Feminism is cancer”. A conservative pin-up who claims: “I don’t care about politics.” A writer and speaker who claims his provocative statements are just “facts” while celebrating the “post-fact era”.
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....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
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..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
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110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
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BBC: Covid cases in China touch 900 million - study
13 January
People walk past Lunar New Year decor in ChinaMARK R CRISTINO/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock
Covid cases are expected to spike in China over the Lunar New Year
Some 900 million people in China have been infected with the coronavirus as of 11 January, according to a study by Peking University.
The report estimates that 64% of the country's population has the virus.
It ranks Gansu province, where 91% of the people are reported to be infected, at the top, followed by Yunnan (84%) and Qinghai (80%).
A top Chinese epidemiologist has also warned that cases will surge in rural China over the lunar new year.
The peak of China's Covid wave is expected to last two to three months, added Zeng Guang, ex-head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control.
Hundreds of millions of Chinese are travelling to their hometowns - many for the first time since the pandemic began - ahead of the lunar new year on 23 January.
China has stopped providing daily Covid statistics since abandoning zero-Covid.
But hospitals in big cities - where healthcare facilities are better and more easily accessible - have become crowded with Covid patients as the virus has spread through the country.
Speaking at an event earlier this month, Mr Zeng said it was "time to focus on the rural areas", in remarks reported in the Caixin news outlet.
Many elderly, sick and disabled in the countryside were already being left behind in terms of Covid treatment, he added.
China's central Henan province is the only province to have given details of infection rates - earlier this month a health official there said nearly 90% of the population had had Covid, with similar rates seen in urban and rural areas.
However government officials say many provinces and cities have passed the peak of infections.
The Lunar New Year holidays in China, which officially start from 21 January, involves the world's largest annual migration of people.
Some two billion trips are expected to be made in total and tens of millions of people have already travelled.
Chinese hope lunar new year consigns Covid to past
Young Chinese self-infect amid Covid fears for elderly
Last month, China abruptly abandoned its zero Covid policies. It also reopened its borders on Sunday.
Official data shows five or fewer deaths a day over the past month, numbers which are inconsistent with the long queues seen at funeral homes and reports of deaths on social media.
In December Chinese officials said they planned to issue monthly rather than daily updates on the Covid situation in the country.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said China, which stopped reporting Covid fatalities from Tuesday, was heavily under-reporting Covid deaths.
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Yahoo news: Women in ICE Detention Centers Were Reportedly Given Hysterectomies Without Informed Consent
September 14, 2020, 2:06 PM PDT
Following some devastating revelations from a nurse-turned-whistleblower at a Georgia immigrant detention center (as shared with the Intercept earlier this week) about concerns over medical practices at the center during the global pandemic, the full complaint obtained by SheKnows provides a grim closer look into the practices putting immigrants detained in the Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) — operated by private prison company LaSalle Corrections — at risk and allegedly irreparably harming their health and reproductive freedom.
Through on-the-record insights from Dawn Wooten, the licensed practical nurse employed by ICDC and protected whistleblower quoted throughout the complaint, and interviews with detained women, the complaint shares reports of a lack of clear informed consent before procedures are performed and numerous women undergoing traumatic, lasting changes to their reproductive health. The complaint was filed by Project South, Georgia Detention Watch, Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights and South Georgia Immigrant Support Network on Monday, September 14.
According to the complaint, a number of immigrant women have reported being recommended hysterectomies (a surgery that removes a woman’s uterus) “by a particular gynecologist outside the facility” — with reports of women undergoing the procedures without being made to fully understand what is happening to them and the medical reasons (either due to miscommunication, language gaps or other reasons) they’d need the procedure.
Wooten said in the complaint that the number of women recommended for the procedure was concerning: “Everybody [the gynecologist] sees has a hysterectomy — just about everybody. He’s even taken out the wrong ovary on a young lady [detained immigrant woman]. She was supposed to get her left ovary removed because it had a cyst on the left ovary; he took out the right one. She was upset. She had to go back to take out the left and she wound up with a total hysterectomy,” Wooten said. “She still wanted children—so she has to go back home now and tell her husband that she can’t bear kids… she said she was not all the way out under anesthesia and heard him [doctor] tell the nurse that he took the wrong ovary.”
According to the complaint, one detained immigrant told Project South that she had spoken with five women who were detained in late 2019 (October through December) who had hysterectomies done. Per the complaint: “When she talked to them about the surgery, the women ‘reacted confused when explaining why they had one done.’ The woman told Project South that it was as though the women were ‘trying to tell themselves it’s going to be OK.’ She further said: ‘When I met all these women who had had surgeries, I thought this was like an experimental concentration camp. It was like they’re experimenting with our bodies.'”
Wooten says that she and other nurses at the center have been alarmed by the rate these procedures are being performed on detained people and said that, for the doctor in question used consistently by the center, a hysterectomy seems to be “his speciality.”
“He’s the uterus collector,” Wooten said in the complaint. “I know that’s ugly…is he collecting these things or something? Everybody he sees, he’s taking all their uteruses out or he’s taken their tubes out. What in the world.”
For non-English speaking people in detention, there are reports of the language gap leading to extreme miscommunication about the procedures being done and why. Per the complaint, one detained person told Project South that she had a hard time getting straight answers — getting three different responses about what procedure she was getting and why — and “felt like they were trying to mess with [her] body.”
Project South reports that she was told by one doctor that she was going to have a procedure to drain an ovarian cyst; she was told she was having a hysterectomy by the officer transporting her to the hospital; and she was told by a nurse at ICDC that she was going to have a dilatation and curettage (D&C) procedure to deal with “heavy bleeding” that the woman said she’d never even experienced. When she tried to explain that to the nurse (“I tried to explain to her that something isn’t right; that procedure isn’t for me,”) she said the nurse got angry and agitated and started yelling at her.
“I’ve had several inmates tell me that they’ve been to see the doctor and they’ve had hysterectomies and they don’t know why they went or why they’re going,” Wooten said. “…These immigrant women, I don’t think they really, totally, all the way understand this is what’s going to happen depending on who explains it to them.”
She adds that others, who are able to understand the very permanent, lasting procedure being recommended to them “some of them a lot of times won’t even go, they say they’ll wait to get back to their country to go to the doctor.”
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Check the last two weeks, pink numbnuts.
Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
140,000 deaths Friday July 17th
147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
156,000 deaths Friday July 31st
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Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
140,000 deaths Friday July 17th
147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
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....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
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I’d get someone you know in person to help you. Or geek squad at Best Buy.
Whatever you do don’t trust these people. They will never issue a refund, and just use any future contacts with you to try to scam you further.
If you haven’t already, I’d ask your bank or credit card company to get you a new card number for your account and tell them you were scammed. They may be adding extra charges to your card you’re not aware of. Unless you paid them in money order or gift cards or something.
Get your computer fixed if you can, or even a new computer if you can’t.
Never give your information to someone over the phone. They will pretend to be anyone: the IRS, your bank, your credit card company, your computer company.
Always only contact them using phone numbers that you personally get from your own paper records. Like your bank statement, your credit card statement, your IRS or social security mailings.
I recommend screening all of your phone calls. Letting the answering machine pick them up. Anybody legitimate will leave a message.
If somebody says they’re from your company, do NOT call the number they left in your machine. Only the number on your paper records. They will be able to transfer you to the appropriate department or give you a special number if it’s separate.
Mom mother has been scammed. It cost us months of headache. If anybody calls you always be suspicious.
Good luck to you, it’s money out of hand, just consider it gone and a good lesson. They wanted $2,000 from my mother and she came to me fast enough that we were able to stop the charges. Best wishes.
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Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
140,000 deaths Friday July 17th
147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
156,000 deaths Friday July 31st
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Yahoo news: Women in ICE Detention Centers Were Reportedly Given Hysterectomies Without Informed Consent
September 14, 2020, 2:06 PM PDT
Following some devastating revelations from a nurse-turned-whistleblower at a Georgia immigrant detention center (as shared with the Intercept earlier this week) about concerns over medical practices at the center during the global pandemic, the full complaint obtained by SheKnows provides a grim closer look into the practices putting immigrants detained in the Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) — operated by private prison company LaSalle Corrections — at risk and allegedly irreparably harming their health and reproductive freedom.
Through on-the-record insights from Dawn Wooten, the licensed practical nurse employed by ICDC and protected whistleblower quoted throughout the complaint, and interviews with detained women, the complaint shares reports of a lack of clear informed consent before procedures are performed and numerous women undergoing traumatic, lasting changes to their reproductive health. The complaint was filed by Project South, Georgia Detention Watch, Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights and South Georgia Immigrant Support Network on Monday, September 14.
According to the complaint, a number of immigrant women have reported being recommended hysterectomies (a surgery that removes a woman’s uterus) “by a particular gynecologist outside the facility” — with reports of women undergoing the procedures without being made to fully understand what is happening to them and the medical reasons (either due to miscommunication, language gaps or other reasons) they’d need the procedure.
Wooten said in the complaint that the number of women recommended for the procedure was concerning: “Everybody [the gynecologist] sees has a hysterectomy — just about everybody. He’s even taken out the wrong ovary on a young lady [detained immigrant woman]. She was supposed to get her left ovary removed because it had a cyst on the left ovary; he took out the right one. She was upset. She had to go back to take out the left and she wound up with a total hysterectomy,” Wooten said. “She still wanted children—so she has to go back home now and tell her husband that she can’t bear kids… she said she was not all the way out under anesthesia and heard him [doctor] tell the nurse that he took the wrong ovary.”
According to the complaint, one detained immigrant told Project South that she had spoken with five women who were detained in late 2019 (October through December) who had hysterectomies done. Per the complaint: “When she talked to them about the surgery, the women ‘reacted confused when explaining why they had one done.’ The woman told Project South that it was as though the women were ‘trying to tell themselves it’s going to be OK.’ She further said: ‘When I met all these women who had had surgeries, I thought this was like an experimental concentration camp. It was like they’re experimenting with our bodies.'”
Wooten says that she and other nurses at the center have been alarmed by the rate these procedures are being performed on detained people and said that, for the doctor in question used consistently by the center, a hysterectomy seems to be “his speciality.”
“He’s the uterus collector,” Wooten said in the complaint. “I know that’s ugly…is he collecting these things or something? Everybody he sees, he’s taking all their uteruses out or he’s taken their tubes out. What in the world.”
For non-English speaking people in detention, there are reports of the language gap leading to extreme miscommunication about the procedures being done and why. Per the complaint, one detained person told Project South that she had a hard time getting straight answers — getting three different responses about what procedure she was getting and why — and “felt like they were trying to mess with [her] body.”
Project South reports that she was told by one doctor that she was going to have a procedure to drain an ovarian cyst; she was told she was having a hysterectomy by the officer transporting her to the hospital; and she was told by a nurse at ICDC that she was going to have a dilatation and curettage (D&C) procedure to deal with “heavy bleeding” that the woman said she’d never even experienced. When she tried to explain that to the nurse (“I tried to explain to her that something isn’t right; that procedure isn’t for me,”) she said the nurse got angry and agitated and started yelling at her.
“I’ve had several inmates tell me that they’ve been to see the doctor and they’ve had hysterectomies and they don’t know why they went or why they’re going,” Wooten said. “…These immigrant women, I don’t think they really, totally, all the way understand this is what’s going to happen depending on who explains it to them.”
She adds that others, who are able to understand the very permanent, lasting procedure being recommended to them “some of them a lot of times won’t even go, they say they’ll wait to get back to their country to go to the doctor.”
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....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
140,000 deaths Friday July 17th
147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
156,000 deaths Friday July 31st
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....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
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