Jon Sanders, senior fellow in regulatory studies and research editor at the John Locke Foundation, examines excess deaths in North Carolina linked to COVID-19. Learn more here: “North Carolina: No excess deaths from COVID since mid-March.”
Locke’s Jon Sanders says N.C. has had no excess deaths from COVID since March
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