WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has surpassed a jarring milestone in the coronavirus pandemic: 100,000 deaths.
That number is the best estimate and most assuredly an undercount. But it represents the stark reality that more Americans have died from the virus than from the Vietnam and Korea wars combined.
According to a tally by Johns Hopkins University, the virus has infected more than 5.6 million people worldwide and killed over 350,000. The U.S. has the most infections and deaths by far.
Early on, President Donald Trump downplayed the severity of the coronavirus and predicted the country wouldn’t reach this death toll.
Alas we were there yesterday, but Hopkins seems to be the gold standard count.
Watching FL (up 61 today, and FL is undercounting deaths) GA, TX, NC, WI. And Brix just predicted we would be lucky to avoid under 200,000 deaths. At that rate we will have the highest death rate by far in the world on a per capita basis, and do so with being one of the last (early March) to have widespread community spread, which makes Trump’s failure all the more glaring.
And PS, I want to give a shout out to Brazil, whose 1,049 deaths today are second to the USA’s 1,434. Under Balersaro, who is amazingly more crazy than Trump, Brazil has the potential to out ugly the USA, and my guess is will overtake the UK at some point, and the UK will overtake Spain to have the highest death rate in the next few days (they are gaining on Spain 5-10 deaths/m/day)
Currently the “leader board” (major countries only) is:
Spain: 580/Million deaths
UK 552/Million deaths
Italy 547/Million deaths
France 438/Million deaths
Sweden 418/Million deaths
USA 308/Million deaths
Canada 179/Million deaths
Brazil 121/Million deaths
Germany 102 Million deaths
But England (up +412 today) and Sweden (+95) are outside of Brazil and the USA the only places with continuously high death tolls whose statistics can be trusted (Mexico and Russia also have high death tolls, but not trustworthy statistics).
I am not tired of winning. Let’s reach 200000
Please tell me why the Dem leaders are completely unable to pin this on Trump?
If this happened under Obama we would be subjected to hourly dosage of Obama The Murderer of Americans meme. Hell for a few deaths in Benghazi the Republicans made life hell for every Dem leader.
What the fuck is wrong with Dems. Bidens could muster no more courage than required to call him a “fool”. That’s it. WTF.
I would not focus on the 100,000 deaths as a milestone, it is likely wrong and substantially below the true number. Atrios makes an interesting observation, this is a time when honesty about what lies ahead will be appreciated.