Virus Deaths Approach Spring Record Amid Changing U.S. Crisis - The New York Times

On April 15, the United States reached a grim nadir in the pandemic: 2,752 people across the country were reported to have died from Covid-19 that Wednesday, more than on any day before or since.

But now, after seven desperate months trying to contain the virus, daily deaths are rising sharply and fast approaching that dreadful count again.

Months of suffering have provided a horrific but valuable education: Doctors and nurses know better how to treat patients who contract the virus and how to prevent severe cases from ending in fatality, and a far smaller proportion of people who catch the virus are dying from it than were in the spring, experts say.

Still, the toll of the virus was an abstraction for many Americans because deaths were concentrated in a handful of states like New York, New Jersey and Louisiana.

On Wednesday, when 2,300 deaths were reported nationwide — the highest toll since May — only three counties reported a toll of more than 20.

On April 15, more than half of the people who died were in just three states: New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

“Look at me: People we know, people we love — our family, our friends — people are going to get this virus.

And people we know are going to die.”.

New York City alone recorded hundreds of deaths on April 15, underscoring its unique role in that spring surge.

“You know someone is going to die in your care that day,” he said.

The emergency began to subside in the city as summer began, but not before the virus had killed more than 20,000 people and infected, by one estimate, more than a fifth of New York City’s population.

Biden Jr.’s coronavirus task force, said of the death toll.

“Once you go over the case cliff, where you have so many cases that you overwhelm the system, basically at that point when you fall off that case cliff, you’re going to see mortality rates go up substantially,” he said.

On a recent night, they handled four Covid-19 deaths in just 12 hours, he said.

Clock said, the homes had seen only a few Covid-19 deaths every few weeks.

Back in Oklahoma, she said that many people seemed not to believe the virus was real or to take it seriously.

He had been admitted 11 days earlier, she said, with a Covid-19 diagnosis

“I said, ‘You’re going to go, OK