| Title | U.S. Surpasses 250,000 Covid-19 Deaths [Updated] | |
| Date | Friday November 20 2020, @02:11AM | |
| Author | martyb | |
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| from the putting-things-into-perspective dept. | ||
[2020-11-20 02:51:10 UTC; Had used worldwide daily death count (10,970); correct value for US single-day deaths was 2,065.--martyb]
[How many Soylentils personally know of someone who has contracted or died from COVID-19? Please accept my condolences for your loss. --martyb]
The terrorist attacks of 9/11 — the deadliest in world history — killed 2,977 people:
During the September 11 attacks of 2001, 2,977 people were killed, 19 hijackers committed murder–suicide, and more than 6,000 others were injured. The immediate deaths included 265 on the four planes (including the terrorists), 2,606 in the World Trade Center and in the surrounding area, and 125 at the Pentagon. The attacks were the deadliest terrorist act in world history, causing the death of over 500 more people than the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
In just one day — yesterday, Wednesday, November 18, 2020 — COVID-19 took the lives of 2,065 people in the US. At that rate, in excess of 86,000 more Americans will die between today and the end of the year. Deaths tend to lag infection onset by about a month. As the case rate experiences exponential growth, expect a commensurate increase in deaths before year's end.
The COVID-19 death count continues to increase. The US hit the grim milestone of 250,000 deaths yesterday.
U.S. surpasses 250,000 Covid-19 deaths:
The United States has recorded a quarter-million Covid-19 deaths, the latest NBC News numbers showed Wednesday, and the death rate has been accelerating in recent weeks as cases have been surging across the country.
The 250,000th death was logged Wednesday morning, the data revealed.
In the last four weeks there has been a 42 percent increase in the number of fatalities, from a weekly average of 821 per day in early October to last week's average of 1,167 per day, according to an NBC News analysis of the available data.
And a year after the first Covid-19 infection was reported in China, people were dying in America at a pace not seen since mid-August, the analysis showed.
[...] In addition to deaths, the U.S. leads the world with 11.4 million Covid-19 infections, the NBC News figures showed.
"Right now, we are in an absolutely dangerous situation that we have to take with the utmost seriousness," Dr. Brett Giroir, the Trump administration's coronavirus testing czar, told MSBNC's Andrea Mitchell. "This is not crying wolf. This is the worst rate of rise in cases that we have seen in the pandemic in the United States. And, right now, there's no sign of flattening."
Covid-19 has killed 250,000 people in the US. That's 10 times the deaths from car crashes in a year:
Health experts say if Americans don't get more serious about wearing masks and avoiding careless socializing, the rate of deaths will keep soaring this fall and winter.
Here's a look at how deadly Covid-19 is, compared with several other causes of death in the US. To get a more balanced picture, we took the five-year annual average ending in 2018, the latest available year of data for most causes.
[...] Coronavirus has killed 250,000 people in the US in less than 10 months, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
[...] On average, 24,166 people die each year in car crashes, according to data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
[...] That means at least 10 times more people have died from Covid-19 so far this year than car crashes typically do over an entire year.
[...] An average of 42,200 people died from the flu each year from 2014 through 2018, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
So in less than 10 months, Covid-19 deaths have reached more than five times the average number of annual flu deaths.
The new coronavirus isn't just deadlier than the flu -- it's also much more contagious than the flu.
[...] On average, 45,439 people died by suicide from 2014 through 2018, according to CDC data.
[...] Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the US. An average of 670,595 people die from heart disease each year, according to CDC data.
[...] An average of 612,725 people die of cancer in the US each year, according to CDC data.
[...] An average of 141,952 people in the US die from strokes each year, according to CDC data.
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