More than 800,000 Americans have now died from Covid-19, a total larger than the population of Boston, Washington, D.C. or Seattle, according to a rolling tally by NBCNews
This number is expected to increase Monday as more state and local health departments update their data.
Thirty-three states and the U.S. Virgin Islands have seen an increase in deaths over the last 14 days, NBC News data shows.The previous 100,000 jump in deaths happened in 119 days, while the jump from 700,000 to 800,000 happened in 74, according to NBC News analysis., vice chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine. “We’re beyond numb.”
Rodriquez, who practiced in San Francisco during the AIDS crisis of the 1990s, said he struggles to grasp the enormity of 800,000 deaths. According to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the seven-day death average in the U.S. was 1,092, a 27.8 percent increase from the week before.
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