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US has Topped 200,000 COVID-19 Deaths
The US death toll from COVID-19 topped 200,000 [arcgis.com] Tuesday as daily reports of new cases still hover around 40,000 and daily deaths are in the 700s [covidtracking.com].
The grim milestone of 200,000 deaths is equivalent to the death toll from the 9/11 attacks occurring every day for 66 days. It’s also equivalent to losing about the entire population Salt Lake City, Utah, or nearly the population of Rochester, New York. COVID-19 has killed more in the United States than the number of Americans who died in the five most recent wars combined [cnn.com] (the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Iraq War, the War in Afghanistan, and the Persian Gulf War).
By mid-afternoon Tuesday, the COVID-19 death toll had already reached 200,541 deaths, stemming from more than 6.88 million cases. While these figures are based on data from state health authorities, the actual death toll is expected to be much higher.
[...] In an interview with a Detroit TV station Tuesday, President Trump boasted of doing an “amazing” and “incredible” job of handling the pandemic.
Worldwide, there have been more than 31 million cases and nearly 967,000 deaths.
A Single Death Is a Tragedy; A Million Deaths Is a Statistic [quoteinvestigator.com].
Also at cnet [cnet.com], Pro Publica [propublica.org], The New York Times [nytimes.com], Yahoo! [yahoo.com], and Al Jazeera [aljazeera.com].
