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Assault on US Capitol Possible COVID-19 Superspreader Event, Experts Say

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   Health professionals and other scientists are concerned that the
   assault on the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday may also have been a COVID-19
   superspreader event.

   The shouting mob that invaded the building was largely unmasked and not
   observing social distancing as they went through the halls of Congress
   and entered some lawmakers' offices.

   Anne Rimoin, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Los
   Angeles, told The New York Times that, "People yelling and screaming,
   chanting, exerting themselves -- all of those things provide
   opportunity for the virus to spread, and this virus takes those
   opportunities."

   John Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center said the virus killed a record
   4,085 people in the U.S. on Thursday.

   Infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci told National Public Radio in
   an interview Thursday that he believes "things will get worse as we get
   into January." A result, he said, of "the holiday season travel and the
   congregate settings that usually take place socially during that period
   of time."

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