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Sep 19, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read Read on X
#CORONAVIRUS
U.S. Covid-19 death toll surpasses 200,000
A prediction made in March — unfathomable at the time — has come to pass. Dr. Birx made it. What happened to the lady of the scarves? New predictions are for 415,000 dead by January. Because Trump. nbcnews.com/health/health-…
Dr. E. Wesley Ely, a professor of medicine and critical care at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, called the 200,000 deaths a "benchmark of sadness."
"This is 200,000 people who didn't think they were going to die this year," Ely said.
“Covid-19 has killed people of all ages, all races and all political affiliations. They include a veteran emergency medical technician with the New York Fire Department. A pastor in Texas. A nurse in South Carolina. Children who have succumbed to a rare inflammatory complication”
And yet we watch as Sturgis happens, as Trump holds crammed super spreader campaign events, as people think wearing a mask is a political statement instead of a civic duty to protect public health.

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