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…