The United States is reporting 20,000 coronavirus deaths, more than any other country

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https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/11/health/us-coronavirus-updates-saturday/index.html

 

 

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(CNN)More than 20,000 people have died from the coronavirus in the United States, which now has more reported deaths than any country in the world, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University.

The US death toll on Saturday climbed to 20,283, surpassing that of Italy, which is reporting 19,468 deaths, per Johns Hopkins.

 

At least 2,074 deaths were reported in the US on Friday, the largest increase in coronavirus fatalities the country has seen since the beginning of the outbreak. At least 522,286 people have tested positive for the virus, according to Johns Hopkins.

 

Of the deaths reported Friday, 783 occurred in New York state, bringing the statewide death toll to 8,627, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday. That was a slight drop from the state's all-time high in single-day fatalities, which occurred Wednesday with 799 deaths. There were 777 deaths Thursday.

 

"You can see that the number is somewhat stabilizing, but it is stabilizing at a horrific rate," Cuomo said. "These are just incredible numbers depicting incredible loss and pain."

 

But Cuomo also shared what he called good news, saying the state's curve "is continuing to flatten."

 

"The number of hospitalizations appears to have hit an apex, and the apex appears to be a plateau," the governor said, where numbers will level out for a period before dropping.

 

The hospitalization rate is also down, Cuomo said, as are the number of intensive-care admissions.

 

"Still people getting infected," he said, "still people going into the hospital, but again, a lower rate of increase."

 

The US likely saw a peak in its daily death toll, according to Dr. Chris Murray, the director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington -- who created the model the White House is using to gauge the peak of coronavirus cases.

 

"We re-run the model, basically, almost every night -- and the new returns from different states are suggesting different peaks in different states, but at the national level we seem to be pretty much close to the peak," he said Friday.

 

That model projects about 61,500 Americans will lose their lives to the virus by August -- if the country keeps social distance measures in place until the end of May. If they factor in states that may lift these rules by May 1, the numbers "don't look good," Murray said.

 

While health experts are encouraged by signs that social distancing measures are having a positive impact, they warn re-opening the country too quickly could set the US back.

 

Despite the positive signs, the US had not yet reached its peak in cases, Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus coordinator, said Friday.

 

"So every day we need to continue to do what we did yesterday, and the week before, and the week before that, because that's what in the end is going to take us up across the peak and down the other side," she said.

 

Saturday marked the first time every US state was under a federal disaster declaration simultaneously, after President Donald Trump approved one such declaration for Wyoming.

 

It was the 55th disaster declaration issued in response to the coronavirus, following others in the other 49 states, Washington D.C., the US Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam and Puerto Rico.

 

 

 

[Texan4Auburn 1,626]

This doesn't surprise me at all. Was reading an article that was talking about the deaths/hospitalizations and that most have obesity, hypertension, diabetes of some form. The American diet and lifestyle sets us up for it.