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By Joe Murphy and Corky Siemaszko
Over the last seven days, a grim new COVID-19 calculus has emerged: one person died every 80 seconds from the coronavirus in America.
And the pace at which those 7,486 people died appears to be accelerating, a new NBC News tally revealed Wednesday.
In July, a total of 26,198 deaths were reported, meaning one every 102 seconds. As of Wednesday morning, more than 158,000 people in the U.S. had died of the virus since the start of the pandemic.
And the pace at which those 7,486 people died appears to be accelerating, a new NBC News tally revealed Wednesday.
In July, a total of 26,198 deaths were reported, meaning one every 102 seconds. As of Wednesday morning, more than 158,000 people in the U.S. had died of the virus since the start of the pandemic.
The U.S. has logged over 4.8 million confirmed cases. And around 1.8 million of those have come since July 7, when the 3 millionth case was reported, NBC News figures show.
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Under fire for being slow to respond to the COVID-19 crisis and presiding over the biggest economic disaster
since the Great Depression, President Donald Trump once again
downplayed the extent of the pandemic in a call-in interview Wednesday
with "Fox & Friends."
“This thing is going away,” he said. “It will go away like things go away.”
Some things do "go away", but after leaving many dead, like the 1918-1919 flu. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide with about 675,000 occurring in the United States.
The black death "went away" after 300 years, killing at least 1/3 of Europeans.
Polio did not "go away" until a vaccine was created.
Etc.
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Florida, a state that has seen an explosion of new COVID-19 deaths since it began reopening in May at Trump's urging, has now recorded more than 500,000 confirmed cases of the virus, the state's health department reported. There were 225 additional coronavirus deaths reported Wednesday, bringing the total number of COVID-19 fatalities in the state to 7,751. And a large number of those victims died like Grace Schultz, cut off from kin in a hospital. "She [was] 91, so her passing away wasn't such a shock to the family, but dealing with her being in the hospital and no funeral...I feel sorry for anybody going through that," her daughter, Deborah Stella, told NBC News. "It was really a horror show."
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Police announced the arrest of a New Jersey woman who was caught on videotape knocking an ailing woman — who had just told her to wear her face mask properly — to the ground. Terri Thomas, 25, was charged with second-degree aggravated assault and given an Aug. 24 court date. Margot Kagan, who is 54 and still recuperating from a liver transplant, told the police she was standing near a fax machine at a Staples store in Hackensack when she called out her alleged attacker and raised her cane to defend herself. Thomas, police said, tossed Kagan to the ground, breaking one of her legs in the process.
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