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The number of unemployment claims coincides with evidence that some newly laid-off Americans are facing delays in receiving unemployment benefits as state agencies intensify efforts to combat fraudulent applications and clear their pipelines of a backlog of jobless claims.

It’s the latest twist in what hospitals describe as a maddening flurry of changing requirements, as they deal with the strain of caring for patients during a pandemic.

The U.S. has now doubled its COVID-19 death count to top 200,000 victims, and Hidalgo County in Texas has become one of the deadliest hot spots for COVID-19.

The reason the trials are so large has to do with the complications of getting an accurate analysis of whether the vaccine works — and how the scientists and public health officials define “works.”

“In the earliest days of the virus, China locked down travel domestically while allowing flights to leave China and infect the world,” the president said. “China condemned my travel ban on their country, even as they canceled domestic flights and locked citizens in their homes.”