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 stage,” 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 death rate is around 770 depending on the day, and a widely cited style from the University of Washington predicts that the death toll in the United States will double to 400,000 until the end of the year as schools and schools reopen and the disbelievers settle. widely available 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.
The United States reached the threshold six weeks before the presidential elections that will be part of a referendum on the handling of the crisis by President Donald Trump.
For more than five months, the United States has been 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 number of deaths, with around 137,000, followed by India with 89,000 and Mexico with around 74,000.
“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 who saw death with his own eyes. “In the case of our country,” we have failed miserably. “
Blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans accounted for a disproportionate percentage of deaths, highlighting economic and physical care disparities in the United States.
In a pre-recorded speech at a United Nations General Assembly virtual assembly, Trump did not face the 200,000 mark, defended his handling of what he called “the Chinese virus” and demanded that China be convicted for “triggering this scourge in the world. “
The Chinese ambassador’s accusations are unfounded.
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 the United States, 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, Trump published pages of the Global Health Security Index, a measure to prepare for fitness crises, and said, “America ranks first among the top prepared. “
That was true. The United States surpassed the other 194 countries in the index. In addition to its laboratories, experts, and strategic reserves, the United States can boast of its disease trackers and plans to temporarily talk about important crisis data. Control and Prevention has had a reputation for sending help to fight infectious diseases around the world.
But the stealth coronavirus infiltrated the United States and spread undetected. The surveillance at the airports was cowardly. The bans came too late, and it was only later that fitness officials learned that the virus can spread before symptoms appear, rendering detection imperfect.
The virus has invaded nursing homes, where infection measures have already been poor, killing more than 78,000 people.
Inequality has also exploited in the United States: nearly 30 million people in the country are unsure and there are marked differences in physical fitness between racial and ethnic groups.
At the same time, leadership gaps have led to shortages of supplies; internal warnings have been ignored to speed up mask production, leaving states competing for protective equipment; governors have taken their states in other directions, adding to public confusion.
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 “must be carried out outdoors of the White House,” not through both a state independently, he said. “We’re not going to repair our economy until both states have controlled this virus. “
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, the Baylor ER doctor, said that before the crisis, “people used to look at America with a certain respect. For democracy. For our ethical leadership in the world. Support science and use from generation to generation to Moon”.
“Instead,” he says, “what has been revealed is how anti-science we have become. “
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