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'Unfathomable': U.S. death toll from coronavirus hits 200,000

Activists from the COVID Memorial Project mark the deaths of 200,000 lives lost in the U.S. to COVID-19 after placing thousands of small American flags on the grounds
of the National Mall in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020.
Associated Press

By CARLA K. JOHNSON searcher, eight months after the scourge first predicts the U.S. toll will double to 400,000 by
AP Medical Writer reached the world's richest nation, with its the end of the year as schools and colleges
The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus state-of-the-art laboratories, top-flight scien- reopen and cold weather sets in. A vaccine
topped 200,000 Tuesday, by far the highest tists and stockpiles of medical supplies. is unlikely to become widely available until
in the world, hitting the once-unimaginable The number of dead is equivalent to a 9/11 at- 2021.
threshold six weeks before an election that is tack every day for 67 days. It is roughly equal “The idea of 200,000 deaths is really very so-
certain to be a referendum in part on Presi- to the population of Salt Lake City or Hunts- bering, in some respects stunning,” Dr. An-
dent Donald Trump's handling of the crisis. ville, Alabama. thony Fauci, the government’s top infectious-
"It is completely unfathomable that we've And it is still climbing. Deaths are running at disease expert, said on CNN.
reached this point," said Jennifer Nuzzo, a close to 770 a day on average, and a widely
Johns Hopkins University public health re- cited model from the University of Washington Continued on next page