The death toll in the United States from coronavirus exceeded 200,000 on Tuesday, with much the highest in the world, reaching the threshold in the last six weeks before an election that will in fact be a referendum on a component on President Donald Trump’s handling of the crisis.
“It is absolutely inconceivable that we have reached this stage,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, a public fitness researcher at Johns Hopkins University, 8 months after the scourge reached the richest country in the world for the first time, with her laboratories, high-flying scientists and stocks of medical supplies.
The death toll is equivalent 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 deaths are about 770 per day on average, and a widely cited style from the University of Washington predicts that the death toll in the US will be the same as the number of deaths in the US. 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 disbelievers settle down. It is unlikely to be widely had before 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.
The dark milestone reported through Johns Hopkins, based on figures provided through state fitness authorities, but the real cost is that it is believed to be much higher, in component because many COVID-19 deaths were likely attributed to other causes, that is, at first, before it became widespread. Tests.
Trump said it was “a shame” that the United States had reached that figure, but argued that the record could have been much worse.
“I think if we didn’t get it right and we didn’t get it right, you’d kill 2. 5 million,” Trump told reporters in the White House before leaving for a crusade rally in Pittsburgh. He added that the United States is “doing well now” and that “the inventory market has risen. “
He also said that China is guilty of the pandemic. In a prerecorded speech before the United Nations General Assembly, he demanded that Beijing be found guilty of “unleashing this scourge on the world. ” The Chinese ambassador played down the allegations as unfounded.
On Twitter, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said, “That’s how bad it is. “
“It’s an amazing number that’s hard to understand,” he said. “This pandemic has a devastating human cost, and we cannot. “
For five months, the United States has been ahead of the world in terms of the number shown of infections shown, nearly 6. 9 million as of Tuesday, and deaths. The United States accounts for less than 5% of the world’s population but more than 20% of the world’s population. reported deaths.
Brazil ranks second with some 137,000 deaths, followed by India with some 89,000 and Mexico with some 74,000. Only five countries (Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Spain and Brazil) rank higher than COVID-19 deaths consistent with the capita.
“All world leaders have passed the same test, some have passed, and others have failed,” said Dr. Cedric Dark, an emergency physician at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. “In the case of our country, we have failed miserably. “
Blacks, Hispanics, and American Indians 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, according to Johns Hopkins’ account, although the actual numbers are likely to be higher due to gaps in testing and reporting.
For the United States, I didn’t mean to go down that road.
Earlier this year, the United States recently identified itself for its preparedness for a pandemic. Health officials appeared self-assured when they met in Seattle in January to deal with the country’s first known case of coronavirus, in a resident. 35-year-old from Washington state. who had returned from a layover in his circle of relatives in Wuhan, China.
On February 26, Trump published pages of the Global Health Safety Index, a fitness crisis readiness 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 communicate important crisis data. The U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention enjoyed a good reputation around the world for sending help to fight infectious diseases.
But surveillance at airports was cowardice, bans came too late. It was only later that fitness officials learned that the virus can spread before symptoms appeared, which makes the screening imperfect. The virus has also invaded nursing homes and taken advantage of poor infection controls, killing more than 78,000 people.
At the same time, gaps in leadership have led to shortages of supplies and internal warnings have been ignored to accelerate the production of masks, leaving states in the fight for protective equipment.
Trump minimized the risk from the outset, complex unfounded notions of the virus’s behavior, encouraged untested or harmful treatments, complained that too much evidence gave a bad U. S. symbol and disasolved masks, turning facial 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. “
Sandy Brown of Grand Blanc, Michigan, called the record a “heartbreaker. “Her 35-year-old husband and 20-year-old son, Freddie Lee Brown Jr. and Freddie Lee Brown III, died of COVID-19 days apart in March, when there were fewer than 4,000 deaths in the United States.
“What moves me is . . . if things had been done correctly, we might have put an end to that,” said Brown, who has no other children. “Now it’s just unbelievable. It’s devastating. “
The actual death toll from the crisis can be significantly higher: up to 215,000 more people than the same elderly 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 approximately 150,000 through Johns Hopkins.
Researchers suspect that some coronavirus deaths have been overlooked, while other deaths may have been caused through the crisis, creating such agitation that others with chronic diseases such as diabetes or central illness 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.
[Associated Press]
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