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"The real number of dead from the crisis could be significantly higher: As many as 215,000 more people than usual died in the U.S. from all causes during the first seven months of 2020, according to CDC figures. The death toll from COVID-19 during the same period was put at about 150,000 by Johns Hopkins.
Researchers suspect some coronavirus deaths were overlooked, while other deaths may have been caused indirectly by the crisis, by creating such turmoil that people with chronic conditions such as diabetes or heart disease were unable or unwilling to get treatment.
Dark, the emergency physician at Baylor, said that before the crisis, “people used to look to the United States with a degree of reverence. For democracy. For our moral leadership in the world. Supporting science and using technology to travel to the moon.”
“Instead,” he said, “what’s really been exposed is how anti-science we’ve become.”"
'Unfathomable': US death toll from coronavirus hits 200,000
We now have upwards of a half million fewer Americans than we would have had, since the coronavirus pandemic began ravaging the nation uninhibited by a focused national strategy for dealing with the crisis, and lacking any kind of comprehensive responsible national leadership.
200,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths + 215,000 possible COVID-19 deaths = 415,000
Researchers suspect some coronavirus deaths were overlooked, while other deaths may have been caused indirectly by the crisis, by creating such turmoil that people with chronic conditions such as diabetes or heart disease were unable or unwilling to get treatment.
Dark, the emergency physician at Baylor, said that before the crisis, “people used to look to the United States with a degree of reverence. For democracy. For our moral leadership in the world. Supporting science and using technology to travel to the moon.”
“Instead,” he said, “what’s really been exposed is how anti-science we’ve become.”"
'Unfathomable': US death toll from coronavirus hits 200,000
We now have upwards of a half million fewer Americans than we would have had, since the coronavirus pandemic began ravaging the nation uninhibited by a focused national strategy for dealing with the crisis, and lacking any kind of comprehensive responsible national leadership.
200,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths + 215,000 possible COVID-19 deaths = 415,000