U.S. Coronavirus Update: American COVID-19 Deaths Cross 200,000; Fauci “Concerned” That The Worst May Be Yet To Come

JOHN Hopkins University on Tuesday reported that more than 200,000 Americans have now died from the coronavirus during the current pandemic. Globally, the coronavirus has taken close to 1 million lives and 30 million people have been infected.

That means the United States, with 4% of the world’s population, has seen 20% of all fatalities from the virus. The next-closest country is Brazil which, according to Johns Hopkins, has seen 137,000 COVID-19 deaths.

Speaking during CNN’s Citizen virtual conference on Tuesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci said, “The idea of 200,000 deaths is really very sobering and in some respects stunning.”

Fauci lamented that the U.S. does have tools “that could prevent the transmission and by preventing transmission, ultimately preventing the morbidity and mortality that we see.”

But, said Fauci, “simple public health things” are not universally being implemented across the country. “I’m talking about the universal wearing of masks, the attention