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From the death of Richard B. Fitzgibbon on June 8, 1956, to the death of Kelton Rena Turner on May 15, 1975, 58,318 Americans died in the Vietnam War.

Now, since the death of Patricia Dowd , on February 6, until this Tuesday, 57,862 people have died from coronavirus in the United States , according to the Covidvisualizer website, launched by two students from the American University Carnegie Mellon. The Johns Hopkins University website, which has become the most reliable semi-official counting system in the United States, gave the figure of 57,266.

Apart from these discrepancies, which are mainly due to the fact that Johns Hopkins gives more data, the figure is clear: in less than two months, as many Americans have died from the coronavirus as they fell in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia in 18 years and 11 months. . At a rate of about 2,000 deaths a day, it is a matter of hours that figure is exceeded.

A symbolic figure

The death data comes when the number of 'positives' in the tests also breaks a symbolic figure. Today the country has exceeded one million infected people; There are approximately 70,000 to 100,000 new cases each day , according to Johns Hopkins. There are more than three million coronavirus 'positives' in the world.

The barrier of the fallen in Vietnam is purely symbolic. But it comes at a time when the University of Washington Institute for Medical Measurement and Assessment (IHME), which has produced the best-known projections about the extent of the pandemic, has increased by 9, 5% its forecast of deaths in the US , which now stands at 74,073. Throughout the entire outbreak of the disease, that academic center has managed a range of between 60,000 and 93,000 deaths in the United States.

Still, the death toll from the coronavirus is lower in the United States than in most European countries. In the USA there are 174.6 deaths per million inhabitants . In Belgium, the ratio is 641.8; in Spain, 509.8; in Italy, 452.7; in France, 347.7; and in Great Britain, of 317.2. For the US to have the same proportion of deaths as Spain, for example, 168,195 people should have died from the coronavirus.

Controversial figures

As in Spain, the death toll is also controversial in the US, where there are states, such as New York, that use broader criteria when accounting for the dead, while others, such as California, are much more restrictive.

The IHME forecast has come under fire for falling for what former IMF chief economist and former central bank president of India Raghuram Rajan calls "mathiness" - that is, over-reliance on modeling mathematicians. It is something that that research center has implicitly recognized in its latest review, explaining that "Covid-19 deaths are not falling rapidly after reaching the peak , leading to long 'tails' [on curves] in the most states. "

In fact, the US has been at its peak for three weeks, without showing a trend to a solid decline. As the pandemic recedes in New York, the number of those affected and killed in other states increases . To this is added the gradual opening of the economy in each territory, which can cause new outbreaks. Low-cost airline Jet Blue announced yesterday that starting May 4, it will require all its passengers to wear masks on planes.

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