We’re at 113,561 Dead from Trump Virus right now and this from USA Today:
“A Harvard researcher told CNN that as many as 100,000 additional U.S. deaths could come by September.”
And from the Today show:
The "concerning" numbers, as Jha described them, come about two weeks after Memorial Day, "and this is what we're worried about," he said. "I'd hoped that (because) people are spending more time outside ... that we would not see such a big increase so fast, but it's more concerning than I'd hoped."
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Looking ahead to the rest of the summer, Jha explained that if the current number of coronavirus deaths per day in the U.S. — between 800 and 1,000 — stays the same, roughly 25,000 to 30,000 people will continue to die every month.
"sometime in September, we're going to cross 200,000, and we still won't be done," Jha said. "This pandemic is going to be with us until next spring or summer when we have a vaccine. This is not faded."
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Addressing the possibility of another lockdown, he said, "The longer we wait, the harder it is to avoid ... We basically ignored the virus for all of February and a good chunk of March, and then we had to shut down. My point is, let's not do that again."
"Let's do everything in our power to get the virus under control," he continued. "I think we can, we absolutely can. I don't want a lockdown. Nobody does."
The key, though, is to be "proactive," Jha said. "If we just act like the virus isn't there ... we're going to be confronting a much uglier reality, and I don't want to do that."-Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute.
“A Harvard researcher told CNN that as many as 100,000 additional U.S. deaths could come by September.”
And from the Today show:
The "concerning" numbers, as Jha described them, come about two weeks after Memorial Day, "and this is what we're worried about," he said. "I'd hoped that (because) people are spending more time outside ... that we would not see such a big increase so fast, but it's more concerning than I'd hoped."
...
Looking ahead to the rest of the summer, Jha explained that if the current number of coronavirus deaths per day in the U.S. — between 800 and 1,000 — stays the same, roughly 25,000 to 30,000 people will continue to die every month.
"sometime in September, we're going to cross 200,000, and we still won't be done," Jha said. "This pandemic is going to be with us until next spring or summer when we have a vaccine. This is not faded."
...
Addressing the possibility of another lockdown, he said, "The longer we wait, the harder it is to avoid ... We basically ignored the virus for all of February and a good chunk of March, and then we had to shut down. My point is, let's not do that again."
"Let's do everything in our power to get the virus under control," he continued. "I think we can, we absolutely can. I don't want a lockdown. Nobody does."
The key, though, is to be "proactive," Jha said. "If we just act like the virus isn't there ... we're going to be confronting a much uglier reality, and I don't want to do that."-Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute.
