Fauci laments 'historic' Covid toll as US nears 500,000 deaths
by Oliver Laughland in New Orleans from on (#5EFAW)
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As the US approached half a million Covid-19 deaths, the country's top infectious disease expert, Dr Anthony Fauci, struggled for words to convey the grim magnitude of the death toll from the pandemic.
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