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• Everything you need to know about mail-in and early in-person voting in every state in the age of COVID-19, including the first day you can cast your ballot in the 2020 election. (FiveThirtyEight / Washington Post / NBC News / Wall Street Journal)

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1/ The United States surpassed 7 million confirmed cases of COVID-19. The U.S. reached six million cases less than a month ago, on Aug. 30. The World Health Organization, meanwhile, warned that the global death toll could double to 2 million people before a vaccine is widely administered. “If we look at losing 1 million people in nine months and then we just look at the realities of getting vaccines out there in the next nine months, it’s a big task for everyone involved,” Mike Ryan, the executive director of WHO’s health emergencies program, said. Dr. Anthony Fauci, meanwhile, said that a “large proportion” of the U.S. will not be vaccinated against the coronavirus this year, challenging Trump’s repeated assertions that a vaccine will be ready by Election Day. (CNN / The Guardian / Washington Post / New York Times / CNBC / Wall Street Journal)

• ???? Dept. of “We Have It Totally Under Control.”

• Global: Total confirmed cases: ~32,391,000; deaths: ~986,000

• U.S.: Total confirmed cases: ~7,021,000; deaths: ~204,000

• Source: Johns Hopkins University

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• Trump has reportedly lost patience with CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield and other public health experts on the coronavirus task force because their statements about the pandemic confli...

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