Here’s the coronavirus death toll through September 15. The raw data from Johns Hopkins is here.
The United States recorded an unusually bad day on Tuesday with 1,422 deaths. This produced a big uptick in our death rate and makes our weeklong rise look a little more real. We just don’t seem to have the discipline to maintain social distancing measures long enough to get ourselves down close to zero.
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