The United States took a dark step Tuesday: 200,000 coronavirus deaths.
News comes as states struggle to open restaurants, small businesses, and schools; and cases peak in Montana, Utah, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, according to USA TODAY’s research of Johns Hopkins data. over the course of the year.
In March, President Donald Trump said keeping the death toll between 100,000 and 200,000 reported that his management had “done a great job. “With models predicting that number will be overshadowed by the end of the year, Trump has sought to reshape the importance of the death toll.
“If we hadn’t done our homework, it would be 3 and a half million, two and a half, maybe 3 million people,” Trump said Friday, based on over-projections of what might have happened if nothing was done to fight. the pandemic . . . “We have done a phenomenal task with COVID-19”.
COVID-19 deaths exceeded projections in May, when experts from the University of Washington Institute of Health Assessment and Metrics predicted about 180,000 deaths through October; this style now predicts 378,000 deaths through January; The United States reached 100,000 cases in May. .
As Americans mourn the lives of 200,000 people, public fitness experts worry that more lives are at risk as the country approaches the start of the flu season, which is linked to tens of thousands of deaths a year.
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“It’s hard for me to think of a positive situation where things are going to happen in October and November,” said Dr. John Swartzberg, emeritus professor of infectious diseases and vaccines at the University of California, Berkeley. “I don’t see the habit converting properly. I don’t see any accumulation in the evidence. I see that political winds remain oppressive in doing the right things.
Collaborators: Jorge L. Ortiz and Joshua Bote, USA TODAY; Julie Pace, Associated Press. Follow Adrianna Rodriguez on Twitter: @AdriannaUSAT.
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