Deaths overall in the country are down because of the states who got control over the virus by shutting down for the appropriate time and are still in the process of slowly opening with masks and social distancing still required.Soaring coronavirus infections in Texas, Arizona and Florida are pushing deaths from the disease back upward, reversing two months of declines and undercutting claims by the Trump administration that the pandemic is under control.
In Texas, where hospitals are being swamped by a wave of COVID-19 patients, the seven-day average of deaths hit 46 a day this week, more than double the daily average in mid-June, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. The average daily death toll in Arizona has also more than doubled in the last month. And in Florida, another state where infections are skyrocketing, the daily average of coronavirus-related deaths has jumped 60% in the last 2½ weeks.
But deaths lag several weeks behind infections and hospitalizations. With hospital admissions way up in Texas, Florida, Arizona and other states, the death rate in those states will go up even more.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/ ... lls-rising“The problem is that many people do not understand or recognize the time delay and do not attribute the hospitalization and deaths to a specific time and event where little social distancing and little masking is happening,” said Dr. Manoj Jain, an infectious disease physician who is advising the mayor of Memphis, Tenn., on coronavirus.