COVID-19.This once-in-a-generation crisis has not been met with a unified response, or a common will to fight. Instead, the nation keeps going around in circles, dooming itself to the grim promise of more dark days ahead.“We will be at 300,000 deaths by Dec.
1,” warns Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College, “and maybe even 400,000 deaths by the time of the next presidential inauguration.”A projection from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington predicts 415,000 deaths as early as Jan.
1, 2021.Of the approximately 31 million cases and nearly one million COVID-19 deaths worldwide, the United States has suffered at a disproportionately high rate.