As US passes 150,000 coronavirus deaths, experts at Johns Hopkins call for reset in national respons

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The United States on Wednesday surpassed 150,000 recorded Covid-19 deaths -- a milestone that comes as the country's number of daily coronavirus deaths is the highest it's been since the spring.

The first death in the US was reported on February 29. The country reached 50,000 deaths 54 days later on April 23, and 34 days later, on May 27, crossed 100,000 deaths. It has taken 63 days to add another 50,000 to reach the 150,000 mark.

The country's coronavirus death toll was 150,447 as of Wednesday evenings -- more than a fifth of the world's 662,000-plus recorded deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.

"I think the fact that we as a country have not been able to get our arms around this, have not prioritized preventing those deaths is all that much more maddening. And so, for me it's frustration, it's sadness. And a resolve to try to figure out how we prevent the next 150,000," Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, told CNN's Wolf Blitzer.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-coronavirus-nation-could-see-deaths-in-the-multiple-hundreds-of-thousands-group-says/ar-BB17jnFy?li=BBnba9O&ocid=DELLDHP

[superpatriotman]

1. Great

Start by telling us who’s getting it. Where they’re getting infected. How it spreads. Where the hot zones are.

I’d really like a REAL detailed report on these points because I have not seen one.

[gratuitous]

2. Five months in, we're still two months away from getting a handle on the virus spread

Our national leadership has utterly wasted every effort every citizen has made to try to head off the virus. And not just wasted our efforts, actively subverted them. We're worse off today than at any time, and it shows up in the daily mortality numbers. Instead, what we've gotten from the administration is pointless squabbles about wearing masks, ongoing bullshit about useless quack cures, and tantrums from the president about why people like Tony more than Donald, like some insecure pimple-faced middle schooler.

[riversedge]

3. Here are recommendations...........

We only have Trump and the congressional Republicans holding us back
and causing more deaths.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-coronavirus-nation-could-see-deaths-in-the-multiple-hundreds-of-thousands-group-says/ar-BB17jnFy?li=BBnba9O&ocid=DELLDHP

............"Unlike many countries in the world, the United States is not currently on course to get control of this epidemic," the report says. "It is time to reset."

The report includes 10 recommendations that include universal mask mandates, federal leadership to improve testing and, in places where rates of transmission are worsening, stay-at-home orders.

The report says federal, state and local leaders should mandate non-medical mask use in public and limit large indoor gatherings.

States should stop high risk activities and settings in areas that have rising test positivity, but no signs of crisis in hospitals or rising deaths. In areas where the situation is worse, stay-at-home orders should be reinstated, the report says.

The report points to improved testing being vital. The US response to the epidemic will be severely constrained without a reliable and efficient testing system, the report says.

One of the things the authors suggest to combat this is having the federal government work with states and commercial labs to identify and overcome obstacles to getting quick test results.

[tanyev]

4. Good luck. Dear Leader is convinced he knows more than all the experts added together.

[Ms. Toad]

5. We surpassed 150,000 deaths on Sunday. n/t