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Voluntary firefighters take part in a fumigation initiative as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, on the outskirts of Asuncion, Paraguay, Saturday, March 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

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'Off the charts': Virus hot spots grow in middle America
March 28, 2020 9:35 p.m.

'Off the charts': Virus hot spots grow in middle America

DETROIT (AP) — The coronavirus continued its unrelenting spread across the United States with fatalities doubling in two days and authorities saying Saturday that an infant who tested positive had died. It pummeled big cities like New York, Detroit, New Orleans and Chicago, and made its way, too, into rural America as hotspots erupted in small Midwestern towns and Rocky Mountain ski havens.