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In the United States, the pandemic has shown few signs of being brought under control. According to a volunteer group, the Covid Tracking Project, 91,000 people are in hospital with the virus - a record number - and of those, 18,000 are in intensive care. It is thought that the number of Americans dying of Covid-19 could climb to 4,000 a day and there are fears that travel and mixing during the Thanksgiving holiday this weekend could make things even worse. All this is deeply troubling for those who've already lost loved ones to coronavirus. Hina Patel recently lost her father and her aunt to the disease - her mother also became infected - and she wrote a desperately moving account of what happened on Twitter in an effort to bring home the realities of the pandemic. And it garnered a lot of attention. We spoke to Hina and asked her first how her parents caught the virus. (Photo: Hina Patel and her father, Navnit Dhana. Credit: Hina Patel)