This week, the US officially counted 200,000 covid-19 deaths. This week the US recorded 200,000 deaths.

Case counts help scientists track the infection’s spread. Death tolls help policy makers figure out where things are going right – or horribly wrong.

More than 345,470 people have died of covid-19 around the world. 57,993 of those deaths were in the US.

The people who loved them are red-eyed and sorting through the stuff they left behind. Each human lost cuts deep into communities, and the US has etched a wound into itself that is deeper than any other covid-wound on earth.

Every Friday, when I look at the numbers on Johns Hopkins’ dashboard, it’s still a shock. I know I’m not alone.

David celentano, the head of Johns Hopkins School of public health’s epidemiology department, told Vox this week.’that would be the word that I would say captures my response to our current death numbers from the vantage point of February,’ he said.

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In February, the first US death was alarming. Now, around 800 people in the country are dying of the disease every day. The sirens and alarm bells have blurred into the background of a horrible year.

Death tolls are no more tragic than numbers like 145,763, or 12 or one. But the roundness of the number does help to turn up the volume. Comparisons to other death tolls can help us reckon with just how unprecedented this is.

The number of dead is equivalent to a 9/11 attack every day for 67 days.’it is roughly equal to the population of Salt Lake City or Huntsville, Alabama,’ says Carla K. Johnson.

More than 985,748 people have died of this disease. 74 different countries and territories around the world have populations smaller than that number.

Frida ghitis: each single death, every single case, since pandemic, is one too many. ghitis: we’d be dealing with the loss of a nation’s worth of people. She says we’re not dealing with this year’s deadly pandemic.

The numbers are the subject of all the science we talk about every week. They provide the data that researchers use to study this disease. But it is still possible to keep them from going up.

The covid-19 death toll in the United States remained the highest in the world. The fatality rate for people under 20 remained extraordinarily low. Experts are still trying to understand how the disease affects younger people.

Many studies have poured out of Labs, as a flood of data has rushed into them. But many conclusions in the heart debate remain out of reach.

This is a good breakdown of some of the limitations behind two case studies that looked at coronavirus transmission on planes. Two new cases have looked at the strain of coronavirus on planes.

Johnson & Johnson started its large-scale trials for it’s vaccine in the US. Unlike many of the other candidates, this one is designed to only require a single dose. novavax also entered phase three trials this week in the UK.

Pharma companies Merck and Sanofi are both moving more slowly and methodically, but are still very much making progress towards a vaccine.

A covid-19 vaccine for children may not arrive before fall 2021. One group is noticeably not represented in any of the vaccine trials underway in the US.

156 countries are teaming up for a covid-19 vaccine. But not the US or China, it’s going to be a massive political undertaking. covax aims to distribute billions of doses worldwide by the end of next year.

The Verge’s Nicole wetsman talked with a vaccine hesitancy researcher about this vaccine. What concerns public health experts will have to overcome. Check out Maggie koerth’s’how to know when you can trust a covid-19 vaccine’.

Genetic science helped expose a single coronavirus outbreak at a meatpacking plant in Iowa. Researchers uncover a single outbreak at the meatpacking plant.

More than 32,397,479 people worldwide have tested positive. May your road to recovery be smooth, may your way to recovery.