The number of COVID-19 deaths per day had been falling for months and remained down even as such states as Florida and Texas saw explosions in cases and hospitalizations — and as reported daily U.S.

A COVID-19 death, when it occurs, typically comes several weeks after a person is first infected with the coronavirus.

And it’s picking up at the time you’d expect it to,” said William Hanage, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H.

Chan School of Public Health.

According to an Associated Press analysis of data from Johns Hopkins University, the seven-day rolling average for daily reported deaths in the U.S.

Daily reported deaths increased in 27 states over that time period, but the majority of those states are averaging fewer than 15 deaths per day.

California is averaging 91 reported deaths per day; Texas is close behind, with 66.

About two dozen deaths were being reported daily in the middle of that month.

Deaths were so high in that region because the new virus was tearing through a densely populated area, quickly sweeping through vulnerable groups of people in nursing homes and other places, said Perry Halkitis, dean of the Rutgers University School of Public Health.

First, testing was extremely limited early in the pandemic, and it has become clear that unrecognized infections were spreading on subways, in nursing homes and in other public places before anyone knew exactly what was going on.

“Other families are not going to be reassured the hospitals will have the capacity to give [coronavirus] victims the dignity and the healthcare that they deserve.

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