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CDC: Nearly 300,000 ‘excess deaths’ in U.S. this year

Dr. Richard Besser, the former acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, discusses the CDC's reports that there will be nearly 300,000 "excess deaths" in the U.S. this year.

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