A little more than two weeks since the United States hit 150,000 COVID-19 deaths, the country has now surpassed 170,000 lives lost to the novel coronavirus.The rising number of deaths comes as the nation continues to deal with the surge in cases that started earlier in the summer.
While the number of new COVID-19 cases nationwide has begun to slow over the past few weeks, the United States is still recording more than twice the number of new daily COVID-19 cases it was in June.Meanwhile, public health experts remain worried that the return of K-12 and college students to school will lead to a new spike in infections.
The detection of four clusters of coronavirus cases at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), which began its