U.S. coronavirus deaths surpass 140,000 as outbreak worsens

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U.S. coronavirus deaths surpass 140,000 as outbreak worsens

By Lisa Shumaker

 

A healthcare worker places a stretcher inside of an ambulance at the emergency room entrance of Houston Methodist Hospital in the Texas Medical Center as cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spike in Houston, Texas, U.S., July 8,2020. REUTERS/Callaghan O'Hare/Files

 

(Reuters) - U.S. deaths from the novel coronavirus topped 140,000 on Saturday as cases continued to rise in 42 out of 50 states over the past two weeks, according to a Reuters tally.

 

Since late June, the United States has seen a resurgence in new cases and now, six weeks later, deaths have also begun rising, according to a weekly Reuters analysis of state and county data.

 

America is losing about 5,000 people to the virus every week. By contrast, neighboring Canada has reported total deaths of 8,800 since the pandemic started.

 

In just one week, the United States records about as many deaths as the 5,600 lives Sweden has lost since the pandemic began earlier this year.

 

In the hardest-hit U.S. counties, officials are running out of places to store bodies as their morgues fill up.

 

Arizona's Maricopa County, home to the state's largest city, Phoenix, is bringing in 14 coolers to hold up to 280 bodies and more than double morgue capacity ahead of an expected surge in coronavirus fatalities, officials said on Thursday.

 

In Texas, the city of San Antonio and Bexar County have acquired five refrigerated trailers to store up to 180 bodies.

 

The appearance of such mobile morgues has fed the sense in some Southern states that the pandemic appears to be spinning out of control.

 

(Writing by Lisa Shumaker; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall, Jonathan Oatis and William Mallard)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-07-20

 

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[Dumbastheycome]

"The appearance of such mobile morgues has fed the sense in some Southern states that the pandemic appears to be spinning out of control."

I wish best of luck to the USA !

 

[pgrahmm]

Part of that comes from the perceived independence attitude....

The I don't need a mask, I'll go where I want - when I want & how I want, coupled with the necessary reopening of the economy & unrestricted movement is working against them.....Hordes of agitators running amuck/looters/criminals released/political gaming; the police being forced to stand down and watch = it's going to get worse.....

We were planning on going from Aug to Jan = not now - looking pretty damn good right here...

[blazes]

2 hours ago, pgrahmm said:

Part of that comes from the perceived independence attitude....

The I don't need a mask, I'll go where I want - when I want & how I want, coupled with the necessary reopening of the economy & unrestricted movement is working against them.....Hordes of agitators running amuck/looters/criminals released/political gaming; the police being forced to stand down and watch = it's going to get worse.....

We were planning on going from Aug to Jan = not now - looking pretty damn good right here...

 

You mean you wanted to return to Chiang Mai just as the Burning Season begins???

[simple1]

4 hours ago, pgrahmm said:

Part of that comes from the perceived independence attitude....

The I don't need a mask, I'll go where I want - when I want & how I want, coupled with the necessary reopening of the economy & unrestricted movement is working against them.....Hordes of agitators running amuck/looters/criminals released/political gaming; the police being forced to stand down and watch = it's going to get worse.....

We were planning on going from Aug to Jan = not now - looking pretty damn good right here...

It is going to get much worse if the trump admin gets their way with refusing additional funding for testing and tracking.

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/18/white-house-seeks-to-block-funds-for-testing-in-coronavirus-relief-bill-report.html

[Eric Loh]

6 hours ago, Dumbastheycome said:

"The appearance of such mobile morgues has fed the sense in some Southern states that the pandemic appears to be spinning out of control."

I wish best of luck to the USA !

 

Will be a huge boost of luck if Trump resign tomorrow and allow Biden to take over the leadership in preventing the pandemic from spinning out of control.  

[robblok]

33 minutes ago, simple1 said:

It is going to get much worse if the trump admin gets their way with refusing additional funding for testing and tracking.

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/18/white-house-seeks-to-block-funds-for-testing-in-coronavirus-relief-bill-report.html

I really don't understand Trump does he really think it will go away when no test are done. Testing and tracking is the only way to get things under control. That and lock down and masks.

 

Also the fact that mobile morgues are needed does that not prove there is a problem to even the dumbest of Trump supporters. 

[Morch]

14 minutes ago, robblok said:

I really don't understand Trump does he really think it will go away when no test are done. Testing and tracking is the only way to get things under control. That and lock down and masks.

 

Also the fact that mobile morgues are needed does that not prove there is a problem to even the dumbest of Trump supporters. 

 

Trump''s horizon is elections time.

 

So long as he can pull off enough distractions, come up with new bogeymen, and enough Americans get used to the Covid-19's new normal, it's a deal.

[Sujo]

Fake news, dem hoax. Will ne at zero soon. Masks? No need. Testing? Dont test and people dont get the virus.

 

Look over there, i built a wall, oh, its around the whitehouse. Nevermind, what time is my golf game.

 

Ps. Sleepy Joe has cancer from a windmill.

[Brickbat]

It’s all a “ hoax”. The Donald told me...Ho Ho hoax. Millions of nut jobs believe him.

Hitler revisits. Spread fear and division. 

[Siamjim]

seems these fake surges numbers happens in timing for school opening, rally and debates and it will most likely all disappear mysteriously after the election

[Tug]

Just trump or should I say president ostrich sticks his head in the sand at the first sign of danger all joking aside obviously the virus is out of control in large part because of donalds failure of leadership that beeing said he’s modivated by the economy and sielf preservation to him that’s all that matters it’s much easier to sacrifice lives than take the nessary steps to get this under control and we all know donald is a very very lazy man

[ToddinChonburi]

Heart attack,  Corona death

Cancer, Corona death.

Car accident, Corona death.

[wwest5829]

8 hours ago, pgrahmm said:

Part of that comes from the perceived independence attitude....

The I don't need a mask, I'll go where I want - when I want & how I want, coupled with the necessary reopening of the economy & unrestricted movement is working against them.....Hordes of agitators running amuck/looters/criminals released/political gaming; the police being forced to stand down and watch = it's going to get worse.....

We were planning on going from Aug to Jan = not now - looking pretty damn good right here...

I recognize the justified frustration/anger within the working middle class but they are emotionally flailing about at anything/everything. Until the USA addresses the underlying issue of the gross income/wealth gap disparity, allowing for the inequities, the madness will continue ...

[Chomper Higgot]

24 minutes ago, ToddinChonburi said:

Heart attack,  Corona death

Cancer, Corona death.

Car accident, Corona death.

It appears there is a correlation between gross stupidity and Corona infection/death.

 

A Pastor who was a fun idea  the warnings and put his faith in ‘God’s protection’ and a young man who thought attending a Coronavirus party being two examples.

 

But there are many others:

 

Ignoring scientific/medical advice.

Confusing wearing a mask as an assault on one’s freedoms.

etc.

 

Oh and I suspect deaths in car accidents are down on seasonal averages.

 

 

 

 

[paddypower]

nature is way smarter than most people.  it was there before us and it will be there long after we're toast. Faced with that as an enemy, most lazy, ignorant, or just plain incompetent governments around the world have failed. for example, The UK Health Minister wants to use a different method of counting - to revise downwards the number of reported covid deaths. The Florida governor says he wasn't informed about something to do with controlling the virus until recently (a lie); so its not his fault. as we say in Thailand - you couldn't make it up. stay safe, everyone at TV.

[Venom]

But didn't they predict a death toll of 2 million minimum? This must be a huge disappointment to many. 

[stevenl]

5 minutes ago, Venom said:

But didn't they predict a death toll of 2 million minimum? This must be a huge disappointment to many. 

No they did not.

[spidermike007]

Although the number of cases continue to rise, it appears the mordibity rate is dropping significantly. What is that all about? 

 

Americans need to figure out the difference between liberty and responsibility.

 

And nobody is talking about diet, or factors contributing to the massive caseload. It is all a discussion of the external. America is a spectacularly weak society and culture. 

[rabas]

40 minutes ago, Venom said:

But didn't they predict a death toll of 2 million minimum? This must be a huge disappointment to many. 

IIRC early predictions were for about 120,000. In a wave of irrational optimism that was lowered to 60,000 to 80,000.  Unfortunately we will easily blow past 140,000 due to the ongoing surge.

 

OTH, the US has kept its death toll relatively low. It is still below the EU core 6 countries of Germany, Switzerland, Spain, France, Italy and UK with 150,000 deaths. The EU Core 6 has an equivalent population to the US. But the EU has mostly flattened out so US fatalities will soon surpass them.

 

[Orac]

8 minutes ago, rabas said:

IIRC early predictions were for about 120,000. In a wave of irrational optimism that was lowered to 60,000 to 80,000.  Unfortunately we will easily blow past 140,000 due to the ongoing surge.

 

OTH, the US has kept its death toll relatively low. It is still below the EU core 6 countries of Germany, Switzerland, Spain, France, Italy and UK with 150,000 deaths. The EU Core 6 has an equivalent population to the US. But the EU has mostly flattened out so US fatalities will soon surpass them.

 

Switzerland joined the EU?  Mised thst happening.

[Stargeezr]

Hey the blonde spokes person for Donald said the USA is number 1 with

the virus. I do believe her, and it will be number one in deaths as well

if they keep needing their freedom more than they need wearing masks

or trying to not catch the virus, but more importantly not spreading it to their

elderly family members who will likely keep dying in large numbers.

  Good luck USA, you certainly need as much of it as you can get.

Geezer

[rabas]

1 hour ago, Orac said:

Switzerland joined the EU?  Missed thst happening.

EUropean. CAlifornia. You may have missed a lot. EUCore-6 is from the software.

[MikeN]

2 hours ago, Venom said:

But didn't they predict a death toll of 2 million minimum? This must be a huge disappointment to many. 

“They” claimed it would all be over by Easter.....but “they” live in their own little dreamworld on Pennsylvania Avenue.

[Paul Henry]

Fake News from that horrible media that doesn't like me. If we stop testing there won't be as many cases.

Its the Democrats fault they started the hoax.It will just vanish! one day.

[Walker88]

6 hours ago, Venom said:

But didn't they predict a death toll of 2 million minimum? This must be a huge disappointment to many. 

Who is this 'they' who predicted those deaths?

 

Be specific.

 

Here's a specific quote from none other than 45 himself:

 

"I saved billions of American lives" (by his Covid-19 actions, supposedly)

 

The US current population is around 330 million.

[pgrahmm]

23 hours ago, blazes said:

 

You mean you wanted to return to Chiang Mai just as the Burning Season begins???

Yeah, (this time around) the wife loves the winter season & wanted to experience the entirety of the season including Christmas & New Year's eve....

 

There's a dimming possibility of going later, but, it looks like it is going to stay chaotic worldwide....

[Tie Dye Samurai]

9 minutes ago, Walker88 said:

Who is this 'they' who predicted those deaths?

 

Be specific.

 

Here's a specific quote from none other than 45 himself:

 

"I saved billions of American lives" (by his Covid-19 actions, supposedly)

 

The US current population is around 330 million.

I do not know what America can do as long as Trump is President to turn the tide on the pandemic. It is July and the only achievement that POTUS touts in the fight against the pandemic is that he closed the border to China at the end of January (and his true motives at the time are up for debate why he even made that move). That was 6 months ago. This is absolutely the time for a unified coordinated response and we are being led by a man that thrives on division, of defining "winners" and "losers" (Trump definition of loser: Anybody that does not follow him without question). With that in mind he discredits any media that does not preach and\or parrot his message, even if it is based in science. He refused to wear a mask until JULY (and I am convinced only because he has been convinced that not wearing one hurts his re-election chances)

 

Florida opened up DISNEY WORLD on July 11...that day Florida also had over 10,000 new covid -19 cases reported...Hospitals ICUs are beyond capacity now and cities and economies are shutting down again....and now POTUS wants to open up schools. It is a bad movie... I dont blame the MAGAs on TV for not posting on Covid in America threads anymore...there is only so much energy you can devote to defending a man that calls 10,000 new cases a day in a state "embers".