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More Deaths Are Coming
There’s been a lot of debate around why there’s a spike in cases but not a spike in deaths. In The Atlantic, Alexis C. Madrigal writes that the deaths are on their way:
Many people who don’t want Covid-19 to be the terrible crisis that it is have clung to the idea that more cases won’t mean more deaths. Some Americans have been perplexed by a downward trend of national deaths, even as cases exploded in the Sun Belt region. But given the policy choices that state and federal officials have made, the virus has done exactly what public-health experts expected. When states reopened in late April and May with plenty of infected people within their borders, cases began to grow. Covid-19 is highly transmissible, makes a large subset of people who catch it seriously ill, and kills many more people than the flu or any other infectious disease circulating in the country.
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