US coronavirus response makes it an outlier in the world 

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The United States has the highest number of deaths from the coronavirus in the world, and cases are on the rise in both rural and urban areas. Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, puts the situation in a global context and explains what has set the US response apart.

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