The number of coronavirus death in the United States exceeded 200,000 on Tuesday, an eight-month-old figure when the scourge first reached the world’s richest country with its brilliant laboratories, the most sensitive scientists, and drug stocks and emergency supplies.
“It’s unthinkable that we’ve reached this point,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, a public fitness researcher at Johns Hopkins University.
The grim milestone, through the highest number of deaths shown by the virus in the world, reported through Johns Hopkins, based on figures provided through state physical fitness authorities, but the real figure is that it is believed to be much higher, in component because many deaths by COVID-19 were probably attributed to other causes , that is, at first, before the generalized tests.
The death toll in the United States equates to an 9/11 attack every day for 67 days and is roughly equivalent to the population of Salt Lake City or Huntsville, Alabama.
And it’s still going up. The average number of deaths is approximately 770 deaths consistent with the day, and a widely cited style from the University of Washington predicts that the total number of deaths in the US will be in the middle of the day. But it’s not the first time It will double to 400,000 through the end of the year as schools and schools reopen and an incrute climate is established. It is unlikely to be largely unavailable until 2021.
“The concept of 200,000 deaths is very disappointing, in some amazing tactics,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s leading infectious disease specialist, told CNN.
This figure reflects America’s uneviable position as a world leader in terms of infections and deaths shown. The United States accounts for less than 5% of the world’s population, but more than 20% of reported deaths.
Only five countries – Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Spain and Brazil – consistently classify with COVID-19 deaths consistent with the capita. Brazil is number 2 on the list of countries with the highest death, with around 137,000, followed by India with 89,000 and Mexico with around 74,000.
“All the world leaders took the same test, some passed and some didn’t,” said Dr. Cedric Dark, an emergency room physician at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, who saw death with his own eyes. they have failed miserably. “
Blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans accounted for a disproportionate percentage of deaths, highlighting economic and physical attention disparities in the United States.
Worldwide, the virus has inflamed more than 31 million people and is reaching one million deaths, with more than 965,000 lives lost, according to Johns Hopkins’ account, although the actual figures are expected to be higher due to gaps in testing and reporting. .
For america, I didn’t mean to go down that road.
Earlier this year, the United States was recently identified by its preparation for a pandemic. Health officials seemed confident when they met in Seattle in January to deal with the first known case of coronavirus in the country, in a 35-year-old Washington state resident. who had returned from a stopover in his circle of relatives in Wuhan, China.
On February 26, President Donald Trump presented pages of the Global Health Safety Index, a fitness crisis preparedness measure, and said, “America ranks No. 1 in the top-prepared.
That was true. The United States led the other 194 countries in the index. In addition to its laboratories, experts, and strategic actions, the United States can boast of its disease trackers and plans to temporarily talk about important crisis data. The leadership of the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has had a reputation for sending help to fight infectious diseases worldwide.
But the furtive coronavirus infiltrated the United States and spread undetected. Surveillance at airports was cowardly. The bans came too late and it was only later that fitness officials learned that the virus can spread before symptoms appeared, which makes the screening imperfect.
The virus invaded nursing homes, suffering from poor infection control, where it began killing more than 78,000 people.
It has also exploited inequality in the United States: nearly 30 million other people in the country are unsure and there are marked differences in physical fitness between racial and ethnic groups.
At the same time, gaps in federal leadership have led to shortages of supplies; internal warnings have been ignored to speed up the production of masks, leaving states in the fight for protective equipment; governors have taken their states in other directions, adding confusion to the public.
Trump minimized the risk from the outset, complex unfounded notions of the virus’s behavior, promoted untested or harmful treatments, complained that too much evidence gave a bad U. S. symbol, and sned masks, turning face covers into a political problem.
On April 10, the president predicted that the United States would not see 100,000 dead, a milestone reached on May 27.
Nowhere has the lack of leadership been more noticed than in testing, a key to breaking the chain of contagion.
“From the beginning, we haven’t had a national control strategy,” Nuzzo said. “For reasons I can’t understand, we refuse to expand one. “That coordination “should be carried out outdoors from the White House,” not through both a state independently, he said. “We’re not going to repair our economy until both states have mastered this virus. “
The actual death toll from the crisis can be significantly higher: up to 215,000 more people than the same old man died in the United States for all reasons in the first seven months of 2020, according to CDC figures. 19 the same era was estimated at around 150,000 through Johns Hopkins.
Researchers suspect that some deaths from coronavirus have been missed, while other deaths could have been caused through the crisis, creating such turmoil that other people with chronic illnesses such as diabetes or central disease have been unable or unable to seek. treatment.
Dark, Baylor’s emergency doctor, said that before the crisis, “people used to look at America with some respect. For democracy. For our ethical leadership in the world. Support science and use from generation to generation to the moon. “
“Instead,” he said, “what has been revealed is how unscientific we have become. “
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