More than 33,000 dead in U.S

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BY TUCKER REALS, SARAH LYNCH BALDWIN, VICTORIA ALBERT, JUSTIN CARISSIMO
UPDATED ON: APRIL 17, 2020 / 12:57 AM / CBS NEWS

More than 144,000 people have died worldwide of COVID-19, the flu-like disease caused by the new coronavirus, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The United States has the highest confirmed death toll, with more than 33,000 fatalities ...

https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/coronavirus-pandemic-covid-19-latest-news-2020-04-16/

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1. Record 4,591 deaths in US in last 24 hours

Published: 17th April 2020 10:39 AM
Last Updated: 17th April 2020 10:44 AM
By PTI

WASHINGTON: A record number of 4,591 Americans have died in the last 24 hours due to the deadly novel coronavirus in the US, which has the highest number of COVID-19 casualties in the world.

According to the Johns Hopkins University data, by 8 pm on Thursday, as many as 4,591 Americans have died in the last 24 hours, The Wall Street Journal said ...

US President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House that experts and scientists report that his strategy to slow the spread of the virus has saved hundreds of thousands of lives.

"Models predicted between 1.5 million and 2.2 million US deaths. If there was no mitigation, it could have even been higher than that and between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths with mitigation. It is looking like we will come far under even these lowest numbers," he said ...

https://www.newindianexpress.com/world/2020/apr/17/covid-19-record-4591-deaths-in-us-in-last-24-hours-2131331.html

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. It could have been 1500 or less, if not for Dumbass Trump and GOP and Fox and Limbaugh.

[OhioChick]

2. With far more to come now....... n/t

[Solly Mack]

3. Sadness and then a whole lot of anger.

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5. Death toll may only be tip of iceberg

Soo Kim
11 hrs ago

... obtaining an accurate tally of cases and deaths has become a growing challenge ...

... many potentially infected people have been dying at home. These deaths are currently unaccounted for because of a lack of testing before they died ...


... Mark Hayward .. a member of a CDC advisory council on vital statistics, said: "The biggest challenge .. is to <be able to> implement widespread testing ... There are also varying standards (and timing of rollouts) of testing by state. Cause-of death classification schemes have also been evolving and it's not always straightforward in assigning COVID-19 as a cause of death. I think the biggest barrier, though, is the lack of testing" ...

Getting an accurate account of deaths is vital for mitigation purposes, especially for identifying any potential hotspots and sending resources to those areas before there is an explosion of cases and deaths ... according to the chief of the CDC's mortality statistics branch, Robert Anderson ...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-covid-19-death-toll-may-only-be-tip-of-the-iceberg-says-cdc-adviser/ar-BB12JxeU

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6. Can restrictions be lifted as deaths continue to rise?

... In Dallas, Texas, today, cars snaked along the highway, waiting for National Guard troops to distribute boxes of food. And millions of Americans anticipating their $1,200 stimulus checks will have to wait longer, as technical glitches keep those who file taxes with services like TurboTax or H&R Block from receiving those funds.

As they navigate the economic burdens, Americans also face grim new developments in the public health crisis. Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is now a new national hot spot, after more than 640 cases were traced back to a Smithfield pork plant since shuttered.

In a small New Jersey town, the virus continues to devastate nursing home populations. According to The New York Times, police there discovered 17 bodies inside one facility, where 68 people recently died; 26 had tested positive for COVID-19 ...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/can-pandemic-restrictions-be-lifted-as-u-s-covid-19-deaths-continue-to-rise

[Skittles]

7. I can guarantee you the actual number is much larger

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9. +

[SheltieLover]

10. +1

Sure is!

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8. Becoming America's leading cause of death

By Dan Keating and Chiqui Esteban
April 16 at 10:36 AM

... The U.S. surgeon general had warned that last week would be like Pearl Harbor as he attempted to create context for the threat — but it turned out that more than five times as many Americans died from covid-19 last week than were killed in the World War II raid ...

In early and mid-March, when America began widespread closures, quarantines and social distancing, covid-19 caused many fewer deaths than other common causes — fewer in a week than chronic liver disease or high blood pressure, and far fewer than suicide or the common flu. By the end of March, the toll was closer to the average weekly deaths from diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease. Into April, weekly covid-19 deaths climbed past those from accidents and chronic lower respiratory disease. And last week, covid-19 killed more people than normally die of cancer in this country in a week. Only heart disease was likely to kill more people that week ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/04/16/coronavirus-leading-cause-death/?arc404=true

[SheltieLover]

11. And many heart disease deaths probably could or should have been attributed to covid

from what I have read!