WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- A resurgence of COVID-19 infections in the fall could drag the U.S. economy into a double-dip recession, a senior U.S. Federal Reserve official said on Wednesday.
"An important risk to that outlook is thinking about what happens as we come into the fall, whether we see any resurgence in the virus that would cause an additional pullback in the economy," Esther George, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, said in an interview with CNBC aired Wednesday.
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