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Allegheny County health officials reported no new COVID-related fatalities on Tuesday as the country’s death toll reached the grim milestone: 200,000 deaths since that start of the pandemic.
The Allegheny County Department of Health [ACHD] reported 42 additional COVID-19 infections, bringing the total case count to 11,821 infections since the novel virus emerged in the county on March 14.
The case tally released Tuesday came from 608 tests conducted from August 25 through September 21. The new infections were among patients between 3 months and 98 years old, with the median age being 25. Roughly 80% of the new cases were in people younger than 50.
To date, the county has had 373 deaths and 1,183 people have been hospitalized because of the virus.
200,000+ deaths in US
The United States reached a milestone Tuesday: 200,005 COVID-related deaths. Compiled by John Hopkins University, the tally includes U.S. territories.
In March, when the virus was overwhelming U.S. hospitals, Dr. Anthony Fauci – the nation’s top infectious disease expert and member of the White House’s coronavirus task force – warned the pandemic could kill up to 200,000 Americans. Skeptics accused Fauci of being an alarmist.
The coronavirus model used by the White House predicts the COVID-related fatalities could nearly double by January. The model created at the University of Washington projects another 178,000 Americans could die from COVID and more than 400,000 if mandates are eased.
In a statement Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey Jr. lambasted the Trump Administration’s failure to implement an effective national strategy.
“Every death represents a human life lost, a family shattered, a community forever changed,” Casey said in a press release.
An analysis by researchers at Columbia University found that had the U.S. implemented social distancing measures a week earlier in the early days of the pandemic that more than 30,000 American lives could have been spared.
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42 new COVID cases reported in Allegheny County as death toll in US surpasses 200,000
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