U.S. COVID deaths could hit 1-million mark in next few weeks.
When Trump left office with 24,255,934 coronavirus cases and 402,269 deaths,
Biden was saying he had a plan even with Trump’s Operation Warp Speed in place.
Now two years into the pandemic, the U.S. is approaching the “once-unthinkable”
threshold of one million COVID-19 deaths, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Of the 990,000 and counting death certificates recorded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “at least 90 percent list COVID-19 as the underlying cause of death,” the Journal reports. The remaining 10 percent list the virus as a contributing
cause of death.
The New York Times has estimated the country will arrive at the one-million mark within the coming weeks. When independently analyzed using the current seven-day average of 376 deaths, per CDC data, The Week similarly calculated the U.S. would hit one million COVID deaths in about a month.
Meanwhile, experts have cautioned that the virus’ exact toll is likely being underestimated in official reports, considering undiagnosed cases, especially those from early 2020, per the Journal.
Since the start of the pandemic, almost 75 percent of all deaths have been among those at least 65 years old, the CDC has reported. The virus also hit nursing homes especially hard, phenomenon vaccines eventually help curb.
When the data is adjusted for age, Black and Hispanic Americans are overrepresented among COVID-19 deaths, while white Americans are underrepresented. The total number of pandemic deaths is otherwise highest for the white population, “both because it is the largest and significantly older, on average,” the Journal writes.
Virus deaths also hit men harder than women, considering “[m]en are prone
to cardiovascular problems that can heighten the risks of COVID-19 infections,”
per the Journal.
Researchers believe there could also be a difference in how the male and female immune systems respond to the disease. Today when you do the math shows case deaths equal in both red and blue states.
If you use the ships for a sample:
The British-registered Diamond Princess was the first cruise ship to have a major outbreak on board, with the ship quarantined at Yokohama from 4 February 2020
for about a month. Of 3711 passengers and crew, around 700 people became infected
and 9 people died.
When you superpose those number within the United States 332 million population.
The total number of deaths before it would be over (would be around 850,000 without
a vaccine.) This is why: I am not a proponent of a vaccine because after two years if you
haven’t had covid or if you had covid like I had the virus.
Why would you want the vaccine?
COVID-19 patterns vary widely depending on community behaviors, including whether
or not people are practicing good hygiene or social distancing (cities versus rural areas.)
For a look at how a state’s cases and deaths in the past week stack up to cases and deaths since the start of the pandemic, see the chart below.
The current total cases and deaths in each state since the beginning of the pandemic and in the last 7 days. As of April 26, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports there have been 80,807,564 cases of COVID-19 in the United States.
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California has over 9 million cases, followed by Texas with over 6 million, Florida with over 5 million, and Illinois with over 3 million. A growing number of states are hitting milestones, including:
Over 2 million cases: Pennsylvania, New York, Georgia, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Michigan, Arizona, and Tennessee.
Over 1 million cases: South Carolina, Indiana, Massachusetts, Virginia, Wisconsin, Missouri, Minnesota, Colorado, Alabama, Louisiana, Washington, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Maryland
At a per capita level, the daily average of new cases in the last week was highest in Vermont and New York. Since the start of the pandemic, 988,707 people in the U.S.
have died from COVID-19. In the last week, California reported the highest number
of new deaths with 348, followed by Oklahoma with 163.
COVID-19 patterns vary widely depending on community behaviors, including whether or not people are wearing masks and practicing social distancing. For a look at how a state’s cases and deaths in the past week stack up to cases and deaths since the start of the pandemic. COVID-19 Rates by State (verywellhealth.com)