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The U.S. Has Already Passed 200,000 Covid-19 Deaths
What we’ve learned so far about counting the pandemic’s casualties.
A memorial in New York City in May, when the U.S. coronavirus death toll passed 100,000.
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The official Covid-19 death toll in the U.S. is about to pass 200,000. There’s a lot behind that number.
Is 200,000 an undercount, as some contend, or an overcount? What does it say about the ongoing risk to us and our families? Were these preventable? How should we see these in context of the approximately 3 million people who die every year?