美新冠死亡病例超20万
200K Covid-19 deaths in US When Dr Anthony Fauci predicted in March that COVID-19 could kill 200,000 people in the US, skeptics lambasted him and accused him of fear mongering. But Fauci was right. And the US reached that bleak milestone much earlier than some experts predicted. Since the first known US COVID-19 death on Feb 6, an average of more than 858 people have died from the disease every day. COVID-19 is now the second-leading cause of death in the US, just after heart disease, according to the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Already, COVID-19 has killed more people in the US than Americans killed in battle during the five most recent wars combined. The loss of life is like suffering the effects of 109 Hurricane Katrinas. Or enduring the 9/11 attacks every day for 66 days. And researchers project almost 180,000 additional COVID-19 deaths by Jan 1. But it doesn't have to be that way. "Increasing mask use to 95 percent can save nearly 115,000 lives, reducing that expected number of deaths by 62.7 percent," the institute said. And the same mask wearing, physical distancing and hand washing that protect against COVID-19 also can help avert a flu-and-coronavirus "twin-demic" that could overwhelm the health care system. |