By Josh FeldmanJan 3rd, 2021, 9:08 am ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP / Getty Images The number of coronavirus cases in the United States has is now over 20 million and the death toll has surpassed 350,000. The winter surge many public health experts predicted is likely to continue, with thousands of Americans still hospitalized and deaths in the thousands every week. President Donald Trump attacked the CDC on Sunday as he claimed that the cases and deaths are “far exaggerated.” Trump — who repeatedly complained before the election about the media’s covid coverage and said it would stop after the election — downplayed the number of cases last year when he repeatedly said that cases are only up because of testing.