Two people wear protective face masks as they walk along a commercial street in the Gravesend section of the Brooklyn borough of New York on September 28, 2020.
Credit:	Kathy Willens/AP

Two people wear protective face masks as they walk along a commercial street in the Gravesend section of the Brooklyn borough of New York on September 28, 2020.
Credit: Kathy Willens/AP

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Covid-19 could kill 2,900 Americans a day in December, researchers say. Here's why, and how you can make fall and winter better

The last time Americans faced a fall and winter like this, World War I was just ending. A months-long pandemic exploded in the fall of 1918, killing 195,000 Americans in just the month of October.