N.C. Claims Fewer Prisoners Died of COVID Than Documents Show
In the final hours of August 2, Billy Bingham lay alone in his cell, silent except for the sounds of his short, shallow breaths. Thirty-four minutes after midnight, he was dead. Paramedics arrived at the Albemarle Correctional Institute, a state prison in central North Carolina, too late to take him to the hospital, and instead called the time of death and left. A prison official called his uncle, who would wake up to a voicemail sharing the news.
Binghamâs story is not unique. A
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27 December 2020, 7:31 PM | Reuters | @SABCNewsOnline
Image: ReutersData from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health suggests there are about 6 500 people in the county hospitalised with COVID-19, of which 20% are in the ICUs.
The year of 2020 may become the deadliest year in the history of the United States with the number of deaths in the year expected to exceed 3.2 million, according to preliminary estimates released by the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Commenting on the figures, Robert Anderson, chief of Mortality Statistics Branch of the CDC, said life expectancy in the country could drop as much as three full years.
US records highest yearly death toll in 2020 reaching past 3 million
Experts predict that the final 2020 tally would be 400,000 more than the total number of deaths in 2019.
December 23, 2020 07:34 GMT
This may be one of the worst years in U.S. history as data suggests that the country will pass the three million mark in terms of total yearly deaths for 2020.
A report on Associated Press revealed that although the final mortality numbers will not be available for months, experts already have preliminary numbers that suggest that the country may be bound to see more than 3.2 million deaths just for 2020.
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