U.S. surpasses 250,000 Covid-19 deaths
Source: NBC
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 weeks average of 1,167 fatalities 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.
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Heckuva job Trumpy
Mz Pip
(27,440 posts)Infections are spiking so expect December to be a clusterfuck.
sandensea
(21,627 posts)They're nothing if not predictable.
LudwigPastorius
(9,137 posts)That is 986 people a day dying - every day - while Trump twiddled his tweeting thumbs, watched FOX, and gorged on greasy KFC.
He should be locked in Supermax solitary for the few remaining years of his miserable life.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,852 posts)tclambert
(11,085 posts)I think she misplaced her decimal point. 25,000 dead in a year is more like flu numbers. Covid is ten times worse.