900,000 Americans have died of COVID in 2 years of the global pandemic
Source: NPR
The U.S. has crossed yet another tragic landmark in the ongoing battle against COVID-19. On Friday, the country surpassed 900,000 deaths from the disease, two years after the first COVID-19 cluster was reported in Wuhan, China. Public health experts say coming close to the 1 million death mark from the virus is "inevitable."
"It's absolutely staggering," said Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University, which has tracked the number of COVID-19 deaths during the pandemic. "It's unreal, frankly. And what makes it an even ... greater heartbreak as if the loss of 900,000 souls weren't enough of a heartbreak is the fact that it's probably an undercount of the number of people that we've lost."
University of Texas at Austin professor and epidemiologist Lauren Ancel Meyers said the "horrible milestone" didn't have to happen. "It was not inevitable. There are things that we could have done and should have done ... to protect those who were most vulnerable." she said. "It's a very sad day."
Read more: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2022/02/04/1078100069/covid19-deaths-us
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cadoman
(792 posts)All because he was so selfish and unwilling to listen to Dr. Fauci or any other scientist who could have guided us out of this.
One million people. Think about that. It's as if the state of Delaware or Montana just vanished with a snap of his pudgy little fingers. A million people dead from COVID and selfishness, who should be with us here today. A terrorist attack more deadly than a hundred 9/11s.
wnylib
(21,146 posts)Botany
(70,291 posts).. DeSantis, Abbott, and Noem. They have knowingly spread the disease for Machevallian political purposes.
May 2018 The Trump Administration disbands the White House pandemic response team.
July 2019 The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) epidemiologist embedded in Chinas disease control agency left the post, and the Trump Administration eliminated the role.
https://doggett.house.gov/media-center/blog-posts/timeline-trumps-coronavirus-responses
Jan. 22, 2020 We have it totally under control. Its one person coming in from China. Its going to be just fine.
Jan. 24, 2020 Trump praises Chinas handling of the coronavirus: China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!
Jan. 28, 2020 This will be the biggest national security threat you face in your presidency...This is going to be the roughest thing you face" Trumps National Security Advisor to Trump
Feb. 2, 2020 We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.
IronLionZion
(45,256 posts)who are apparently dying to own the libs
Botany
(70,291 posts)... surgeries postponed because his hospital is filled up with un-vaccinated C-19 cases.
These idiots instead of listening to experts like Fauci or Walensky are getting their medical
advice from Russia via Facebook.
IronLionZion
(45,256 posts)so we are likely to cross a million deaths soon. Good that Dems are mostly vaccinated.
Busterscruggs
(448 posts)The last ones standing. With that obstruction of the population gone, maybe we can finally get some of our progressive plans moving.
brooklynite
(93,850 posts)As big as the absolute number is, its a marginal share of actual voters. Conservative will still be around in abundance.
IronLionZion
(45,256 posts)where they've already lost more people than the margin of victory in recent elections.
tclambert
(11,080 posts)tanyev
(42,358 posts)Response to tanyev (Reply #10)
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mahina
(17,503 posts)Ive now read through the replies and see Coyotes terrific link
https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid#estimated-excess-mortality-from-the-economist
Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)SergeStorms
(18,885 posts)by last September if everyone had a sense of community and civic responsibility .
I shouldn't say "everyone", what on meant to say was FUCKING REPUBLICANS!
My bad.
IronLionZion
(45,256 posts)so we should have fewer of them by November
SergeStorms
(18,885 posts)They breed republicans by the score on special farms in Texas. They lobotmize them at age 2, and from that point on they're raised like longhorn steers.
Skittles
(152,964 posts)yup
Irish_Dem
(45,621 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Irish_Dem
(45,621 posts)Emile
(21,892 posts)that have died. All 9 people were republicans too.
Blues Heron
(5,898 posts)wnylib
(21,146 posts)killed 675,000 in the US.
Ace Rothstein
(3,103 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,145 posts)addressed, and we'll be paying for it for decades.
twodogsbarking
(9,298 posts)The didn't remember the flu but they knew about it from the older generation that did.
They would reference it at times. You are spot on.
Bengus81
(6,907 posts)They can start with the late Feb 2020 at one of his NAZI rally's and....Covid,it's all a Democrat HOAX. Then on to a few weeks later when trump was spewing on the WH driveway about there being 24 Covid cases in the US and all most all of them have recovered so it's not that big of a deal.
love_katz
(2,562 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Everyone else chose to commit suicide by Covid ... bye!
BlueWavePsych
(2,634 posts)niyad
(112,432 posts)ON TAPE the first week of Feb 2020 that he KNEW that a pandemic was about to hit us, but he wanted to be upbeat, so he lied. And lied. And lied. One million cases of "negligent homicide"?
Cha
(295,899 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Aussie105
(5,211 posts)Somehow, the science of vaccinations was twisted and hampered by both politics and religion.
Result?
America has a higher COVID death toll than any other country. And it's climbing.
Not good for a (supposedly) first world, advanced country. And that makes me think . . . .
Today, the USA tops the list of deaths, 925,832.
Second is Brazil, with 632,193.
Third is India, 502,905
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries