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Coronavirus deaths could reach 200,000 by early fall, Harvard doctor warns
TODAY ^ | 06/11/2020 | By Maura Hohman

Posted on 06/11/2020 7:34:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

With more states easing restrictions after the coronavirus lockdown, the U.S. recently surpassed 2 million cases of COVID-19, prompting public health experts to worry about a second wave of the virus.

In 21 states, cases spiked over the past week, NBC News' Erin McLaughlin reported. New Mexico and Florida have seen a 40% increase, and in Utah and Arkansas, which never instituted statewide stay-at-home orders, cases are up 60%. Officials in Arizona, where cases have risen 93%, have urged hospitals to activate their emergency plans.

In light of the new numbers, the nation's top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, called the coronavirus pandemic his "worst nightmare ... Like oh, my goodness, when is it going to end?" he said. "It really is very complicated. So we're just at almost the beginning of really understanding."

While some people, including Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, have speculated that these growing numbers are due to more widespread testing, Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, told TODAY on Thursday that this theory doesn't explain the rise in hospitalizations in at least nine states.

"That's coming from just more people getting sick and needing hospital care," he said. "We've been so behind in our testing approach for months that we were missing most of the cases out there ... As testing's gotten better, we've identified more cases. Testing is a part of the story but certainly doesn't explain the whole thing."

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.

Because the current total of U.S. coronavirus deaths is around 113,000, that means "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."

1 posted on 06/11/2020 7:34:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s everyone who dies that has the Wuhan Flu at time of death. Not everyone who was killed by the Wuhan Flu.


2 posted on 06/11/2020 7:35:30 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of And justfact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It was 2 million.

A meteor the size of Alcatraz could hit the earth too.


3 posted on 06/11/2020 7:36:32 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: BenLurkin

BS


4 posted on 06/11/2020 7:37:06 AM PDT by vigilante2 (Make liberals cry again)
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To: SeekAndFind

It will be cured November 4.


5 posted on 06/11/2020 7:37:09 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: SeekAndFind

Or, they could reach 125,000 or 1,000,000 or 4,000,000 or not.


6 posted on 06/11/2020 7:37:58 AM PDT by TheRake
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To: SeekAndFind
Communist horse shi!
7 posted on 06/11/2020 7:38:08 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: cuban leaf

A Harvard doctor, no name, just a Harvard doctor. Space Aliens (differentiate from regular illegal aliens) visiting Hollywood is more believable


8 posted on 06/11/2020 7:38:32 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (silence is golden, I will not kneel)
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To: SeekAndFind

Like the flu, it is a pandemic. It will never be “done”.

Fortunately, it is not much of a threat to healthy people that don’t already have one foot in the grave.

Stay healthy, folks.


9 posted on 06/11/2020 7:39:25 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: SeekAndFind

What’s the current death toll for the flu that we do have a vaccine for?


10 posted on 06/11/2020 7:40:53 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees)
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To: cuban leaf

Keep that foot out of the grave!


11 posted on 06/11/2020 7:41:08 AM PDT by webheart (Coronavirus, I give up. Come get me.)
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To: SeekAndFind

hopefully most of the new cases will be protesters.


12 posted on 06/11/2020 7:43:39 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: cuban leaf

Yes, avoid aging, if at all possible. ;)


13 posted on 06/11/2020 7:44:15 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

“Life’ll kill you.” - Warren Zevon


14 posted on 06/11/2020 7:45:16 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: SeekAndFind
Omygosh. MORE projections from the "experts? Have they been right about anything related to covid-19 yet?
15 posted on 06/11/2020 7:45:17 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
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To: SeekAndFind

It’ll be ELEVENTY SKILLION!!!!!!!


16 posted on 06/11/2020 7:45:36 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople
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How can that be?...the virus is getting weaker...the stronger variants die with
the host...the weaker variants don't kill the host and spread...it's evolution.
17 posted on 06/11/2020 7:45:44 AM PDT by major_gaff (University of Parris Island, Class of '84)
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sure. As long as you count everyone who had the sniffles when they did or who might have been exposed to covid before death or who might have seen a picture of the virus in a magazine before death...


18 posted on 06/11/2020 7:47:02 AM PDT by Mom MD
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If the public health officials, or even the Family Medicine MD's and PA's and NP's would get serious and make the Zelenko Protocol their priority first response, we could bring the hopitalizations, intubations and deaths down to near-zero.

Zelenko's Protocol is a triple therapy consisting of hydroxychloroquine + Zinc + Azithromycin, started ON THE DAY of testing (no waiting for result of the test) or ON THE DAY of first symptoms in an at-risk patient.

But doctors habve been lied to about the efficacyand safety of HCQ. The facts are coming out about the Lancet Research Fraud, but as we know, a lie can run around the world while the truth is still tying its shoes.


19 posted on 06/11/2020 7:47:54 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (To fear the Lord is to hate evil: hate pride & arrogance,evil behavior and perverse speech.- Pr 8:13)
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To: cuban leaf

“Life’ll kill you.” - Warren Zevon


As a kid, my brothers and I used to love, “Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner”, the flip-side of “Werewolves of London” on the single.


20 posted on 06/11/2020 7:49:17 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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