US Coronavirus Victims Top Three Hundred Thousand

  October 21, 2020   News ID 320
US Coronavirus Victims Top Three Hundred Thousand
US government is busy with presidential election while the people are suffering due to the lack of a definite strategy for management of the corona pandemic. The victims have already topped 3 hundred and the healthcare system is torn with the political approaches that are just supposed to save the statesmen instead of offering a true solution.

Washington, SAEDNEWS, Oct. 21: A new government report has shown that since the coronavirus pandemic began, the US has seen 300,000 more deaths than it usually would. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been tracking how many deaths have been reported and comparing them with counts seen in other years. Usually, between the beginning of February and the end of September, about 1.9 million deaths are reported. This year, it’s closer to 2.2 million – a 14.5 percent increase. The CDC says the coronavirus was involved in about two-thirds of the excess deaths. CDC officials say it’s likely the virus was a factor in many other deaths too. For example, someone with heart attack symptoms may have hesitated to go to a hospital that was busy with coronavirus patients. The largest segment of the excess deaths, about 95,000, were in elderly people ages 75 to 84. That was 21.5 percent more than in a normal year. But the biggest relative increase, 26.5 percent, was in people ages 25 to 44. Deaths in people younger than 25 actually dropped slightly. Deaths were up for different racial and ethnic groups, but the largest increase – 54 percent – was among Hispanic Americans.


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