The United States Coronavirus Death Toll Tops 100,000

Erin Burnett OutFront

CNN

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🗓️ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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The United States coronavirus death toll is nearly triple the number of the U.K. coronavirus death toll, which has the second highest number of coronavirus deaths in the world. The United States coronavirus death toll is also more than the coronavirus death tolls of Italy, France and Spain combined. United States now accounts for one in four coronavirus deaths worldwide and is nearly enough to fill every seat in the largest college football stadium. The United States coronavirus death toll is 80 percent people 65 years old and older and is linked to long-term care facilities. Trump has been silent so far about the United States topping 100,000 coronavirus deaths. Joe Biden calls milestone "heart-rending" in video response. Dr. Fauci is wearing a mask as symbol of what "you should be doing" while President Trump has said "I don't see it for myself." Dr. Fauci also says new cases will surge with reopenings won't appear for weeks, as new cases are trending up in 14 states and are down in 19. One doctor in Alabama says that infections are returning "with a vengeance." Swing state voters who have been hit with economic crisis are divided on President Trump. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.1	Out front next, 100,000 coronavirus deaths, many, many avoidable.
0:38.1	The president's silence so far tonight, plus the victims, an overwhelming majority over the age of 65.
0:43.1	So what needs to be done to protect the vulnerable as the economy reopens?
0:47.1	And one of the places flaring up in the United States, we're going to talk to an ICU doctor there who says he expects the situation to get worse.
0:53.9	Let's go out front.
0:56.0	I don't have a turn. Good evening. I'm Aaron Burnett. Out front tonight, the breaking news.
1:00.8	The U.S. just surpassing a stunning and tragic death toll 100,000 lives. We now stand in this country
1:07.1	at 100,271 people dead from coronavirus. Those are numbers that are hard to grasp.
1:16.0	It is a number that is nearly triple the number of deaths in the country with the second highest
1:20.0	death toll in the United Kingdom. And it means that, as of now, one in every four people who
1:26.3	have died in the entire world from coronavirus is an American.
1:31.6	100,000 is a number that President Trump said at one time the United States would never hit.
1:37.7	By April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.
1:42.5	The coronavirus, which is, you know is very well under control in our country, we have very few people
1:52.0	with it.
1:53.0	The people are getting better.
1:54.0	They're all getting better.
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