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The death toll in the United States from coronavirus has surpassed 200,000, an unimaginable figure eight months ago when the outbreak first reached the world’s richest nation with its brilliant laboratories, world-class scientists, and stocks of medicines and supplies of emergency.
“It’s completely unfathomable that we’ve gotten to this point,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, a public health researcher at Johns Hopkins University.
Johns Hopkins reported the grim milestone, by far the highest number of confirmed deaths from the virus in the world, according to figures provided by state health authorities, but the actual number is believed to be much higher, in part because many Covid- Probably 19 deaths were attributed to other causes, especially early on, before widespread testing.
The death toll in the US equates to a 9/11 attack every day for 67 days, and continues to rise.
Deaths are being recorded at about 770 a day on average, and a widely cited model from the University of Washington predicts that the total figure will double to 400,000 by the end of the year as schools and universities reopen and the weather. cold settles down. It is unlikely that it will be unavailable until 2021.
“The idea of 200,000 deaths is really very sobering, impressive in some ways,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s leading infectious disease expert.
The figure reflects the unenviable position of the United States, which it has held for five months, as the world leader in the number of confirmed infections and deaths. The United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population, but more than 20 percent of the reported deaths.
Only five countries (Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Spain and Brazil) rank higher in per capita COVID-19 deaths.
In an interview Tuesday with a Detroit television station, Donald Trump bragged about doing an “amazing” and “unbelievable” job, adding: “The only thing we’ve done a bad job at is PR because we don’t we’ve been able to convince people, which is basically fake news, what a great job we’ve done. “
In a prerecorded speech at a virtual meeting of the UN General Assembly, the US President also lashed out at Beijing for what he called “the China virus” and demanded that it be held accountable for “unleashing this plague in China. the world”. ”.
But Dr. Cedric Dark, an emergency room physician at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, said: “Every leader in the world underwent the same test, and some succeeded and some failed. In the case of our country, we failed miserably ”.
Blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans have accounted for a disproportionate share of deaths, underscoring the health care and economic disparities in the US.
Worldwide, the virus has infected more than 31 million people and is rapidly approaching one million deaths, with more than 965,000 lives lost, according to the Johns Hopkins tally, although the actual figures are believed to be more. high due to gaps in testing and reporting. . – PA
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