Nearly 2,200 deaths have been reported in the past week in Texas, the state with the highest recent death toll relative to its population, followed by Arizona and South Carolina. “The mortality is going to march in lockstep with our transmission,” said Dr. Sarah Fortune, the chair of immunology and infectious diseases at the T.H. If that rate proves accurate, it would mean a vast majority of infections in the United States have gone unreported. “We have to do better in terms of limiting transmission,” Dr. Fortune said. In early April, Dr. Fauci said on the “Today” show that he thought deaths may never reach 100,000.

Source: New York Times July 29, 2020 22:30 UTC