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A dog walks in the Chichicastenango artisan and food market empty of shoppers during a stay-at-home curfew across the country to help prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in Santo Tomas Chichicastenango, Guatemala, Saturday, March 28, 2020. Activity at the iconic market has been limited to the sale of food and only for a few hours, in an effort to help prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

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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.