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DC fights to enforce distancing and braces for looming surge

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WASHINGTON – Pick-up basketball games. Crowds gathering at an outdoor fish market. Family hikes along trails in Rock Creek Park.

The warmer weather is bringing violations of social distance guidelines in the nation’s capital, even as health officials predict the city could become one of the next U.S.

hot spots in the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 1,200 people have tested positive, with 22 deaths, in Washington. But national and local health officials predict that the worst is yet to come.

Last week, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced that models predict the virus would peak in the District of Columbia in May or June and would result in nearly 1 in 7 Washington residents infected by the end of the year and a high-end death toll over 1,000. “We

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