True death toll from the virus is widely believed to be significantly higher
A heath worker checks ID of residents as they queue to receive a coronavirus antibody test at a village in Bali, Indonesia, Wednesday, May 27, 2020. The U.S. surpassed a jarring milestone Wednesday in the coronavirus pandemic: 100,000 deaths.
At the end March, the United States eclipsed China with 3,500 deaths. Now, the U.S. has not only the highest death total, but the highest number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the world, making up more than 30 per cent of the global total. The virus exacted an especially vicious toll on Mr. Trump’s hometown of New York City and its surrounding suburbs, killing more than 21,000. At the peak, hundreds of people were dying per day in New York City, and hospitals, ambulances and first responders were inundated with patients.
Among the 100,000 deaths was 74-year-old Michael Ganci, a resident of Newington, Conn., who died March 21. He was a public school teacher, a grandfather and father of four, and a fourth-degree black belt Sensei in Kyokushin karate. From Jan. 1 through the end of April, the U.S. saw at least 66,000 more overall deaths than in similar periods for previous years, an increase of around 7 per cent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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