US has passed 30,000 CoronaVirus Deaths

[aggiesal]

This administration deserves less than an F score.

[ffr]

1. And 100% of the credit for every named dead American.

[Squinch]

2. And that doesn't even include most states' nursing home deaths.

[SoonerPride]

3. Death count is doubling every 7 days

It was 14,820 on April 9th.

We will likely be at 60,000 dead by April 23rd or 24th.

We will soar past that low ball number they touted only weeks ago.

[underpants]

6. Correction

That low ball was last week.

I know. It’s all running together now.

[SoonerPride]

7. You are correct. Last week seems like 5 years ago.

Time has lost all meaning.

[rurallib]

13. hit 10,000 on Monday April 6th. 30,000 on April 16th and picking up speed

So 60,000 on April 23rd maybe a bit low.

May 1st - "reopening day" - 100,000 +

[IggleDuer]

4. Is this "Winning."

N/T

[Top 10 Idiots]

5. To use Homer Simpson's ratings score, he gets 7 thumbs down.

[underpants]

8. I was going to ask 5,000 since last night? This has it at 33,332

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

[gratuitous]

12. The public health sector is scrambling to catch up to reality

It's anecdata at this point, but reports are coming in from all over about people dying but not being tabulated in any "official" count. As public health authorities move toward a standard model of counting the infected, recovered, and dead, the numbers are going to increase. There's (obviously) a political component to it all, with forces tugging in each direction to raise or lower the count, but I'm hopeful that science will win out over political considerations and we will be striving for accuracy rather than how to score political points off the dead.

[beachbumbob]

9. one hell of hoax virus aint it?

[Takket]

10. And we aren't even counting people that die at home...

[lark]

11. This administration DESERVES to be in jail.

Only traitorous fascist Russian Repugs have kept him in a position to kill many tens of thousands of us.