{"id":122071,"date":"2021-05-10T09:07:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T01:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=122071"},"modified":"2021-05-10T09:10:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T01:10:12","slug":"122071","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=122071","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: \u2018No doubt\u2019 US has undercounted Covid deaths &#8211; Dr Fauci"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Fauci.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Fauci-696x464.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON, May 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The United States, which has reported the world\u2019s worst overall Covid-19 death toll, has \u201cno doubt\u201d been undercounting fatal cases, top pandemic advisor Anthony Fauci said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country has officially lost over 581,000 people to the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus \u2014 but a University of Washington study released Thursday estimated deaths at more than 900,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a bit more than I would have thought the undercounting was,\u201d Fauci told NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet The Press.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut I think there\u2019s no doubt\u2026 that we are and have been undercounting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States has reported over 32.6 million cases since the virus was first identified at the end of 2019 in China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>America was battered by a spike in cases and deaths after the end-of-year holidays, but since January new infections have come down as vaccination rates have jumped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are turning the corner. We have 58 percent of adult Americans with at least one shot, over 110 million Americans fully vaccinated,\u201d White House Covid-19 coordinator Jeffrey Zients told CNN\u2019s State of the Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Joe Biden wants 70 percent of adults in the US to have received at least one shot of the Covid-19 vaccine by the July 4 Independence Day holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the rate peaked around April 10 and has been declining since then, with vaccine hold-outs slowing the race to population immunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Federal, state and local officials are partnering with pharmacies, restaurants, breweries, supermarkets and sports teams to come up with incentives to get people to get their shots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In New Jersey, Governor Phil Murphy launched a \u201cShot and a Beer\u201d program to encourage vaccination, while in West Virginia Governor Jim Justice announced that the state will offer $100 savings bonds to residents aged 16 to 35 who get inoculated. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, May 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The United States, which has reported the world\u2019s worst overall Covid-19 death toll, has \u201cno doubt\u201d been undercounting fatal cases, top pandemic advisor Anthony Fauci said. The country has officially lost over 581,000 people to the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus \u2014 but a University of Washington study released [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":122073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122071"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}