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A person emerges from a tent set up in the driveway of the emergency entrance to Elmhurst Hospital Center in New York, Saturday, March 28, 2020, as others wait in line to be tested for coronavirus. The hospital is caring for a high number of coronavirus patients in the city.  (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

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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.