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Byline: MARK KENNEDY and KEN SWEET Associated Press

04 Feb

published on February 4, 2022 - 2:42 PM

Propelled in part by the wildly contagious omicron variant, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 hit 900,000 on Friday, less

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