On Wednesday April 1 at 17:34 GMT 4,516 Americans had died from COVID-19 and that is greater than the 4415 that died in the two decade long Iraq war. On Friday April 3 at 17:00 GMT 6714 Americans had died from COVID-19 and that is greater than the 6637 Americans that had died in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined. And right now, on Saturday April 4 at 16:08 GMT 7847 have die from it, and the US only had its first COVID-19 death on March 1.
Only 2 countries in the world have a higher number of COVID-19 deaths than the US, Italy and Spain. Italy's number of deaths is doubling every 10 days. Spain's number of deaths is doubling every 6 days. The number of deaths in the US is doubling every 3 days, and no nation that has had more than 25 deaths has a faster doubling time than that. Iran, which not long ago was considered the prototypical example of a nation that had totally bungled it's response to the virus, has a doubling time of 2 weeks. And yet the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo issued a very strange warning yesterday, it said due to a "significant increase in the number of coronavirus infections" US citizens should leave Japan. But where are they supposed to go, back to the US? Japan has 2306 cases of COVID-19 and deaths from it are doubling every 3 weeks, the US has 291,322cases of COVID-19 and deaths from it are doubling every 3 days. Germany has over 90,000 people infected with COVID-19, only the US, Italy and Spain have more, but for some reason the deaths from it is remarkably low there, only 1.3%; in comparison the death rate in Italy is 12%, in Spain it's 10%, in the US it's 2.5%. Part of the reason may be Germany's aggressive use of testing and their excellent health care system, they tend to hospitalize people who test positive for the virus even if their symptoms are mild because they have built lots of intensive care beds for them and they know their condition can change for the worse very rapidly and their chances of survival are much better if they're in a hospital when that happens. The death rate in the US will certainly increase when doctors start rationing ventilators and are forced to decide who should live and who should die, and that will probably begin in the next week. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv06dn343ztKF7NSywNG7v9JYUq%2B%2BHTZ2yvErKpq_ntnwA%40mail.gmail.com.
