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Hello everyone, Hello everyone, welcome to Factually.

I'm Adam Conover, and you know, what with the election here and the old US of A it's

been a little while since we've talked about the coronavirus so let's check back in.

The pandemic has been with us since March and it's now November. It's been a long time and let me tell you things are going badly.

As I'm reading this, yesterday, over 143,000 Americans tested positive for the virus, the highest ever.

And nearly 1,900 people died yesterday, the highest number since May.

You know, we've all been talking about when this is all over, you've heard that phrase,

but right now, the trend lines are moving in the other direction.

Things are not getting towards over,

things are getting towards still going on,

and in fact, much, much worse.

Now, we do have better treatments for the virus,

and the hope of a vaccine is finally on the

horizon but the pandemic is still spreading faster and harder than it ever has

before and it's for that reason that a lot of people are looking around

and wondering why did we ever end the lockdown? What are all these people doing at the restaurants?

Ah, my cousin had a wedding. You know I saw there did you

see the sports game there were people in the stands. Why aren't they staying

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