4 months of the US pandemic
1st reported death Feb 29th, now >152,000 deaths
1. Phase 1, no testing capacity, rapid spread, ascension to 30,000 cases
2. Phase 2, an 80-day plateau, 20-30,000 cases and ~2,000 deaths per day
3. Phase 3, a 3X surge of cases, new plateau 60-70K/day

4. The more than doubling of deaths from 500-> >1,000/day in the past 3 weeks during Phase 3
Much (case surge and deaths), if not all, could have been avoided by following reopening guidelines (down to ~10/million cases as in EU, #TestTraceIsolate) prior to reopening

5. The real number of Americans infected is not 4.5 million now, but more than 37 million (>11.5%)
https://covid19-projections.com  @youyanggu
—The number of people experiencing #LongCovid is substantial and unknown
—Each person who died has lost an average of 11 years of life

6. We were on the right course in Phase 2, but have dug a much bigger hole. That doesn't mean we can't find a way out of this predicament. But it requires an aggressive national coordinated plan, as we laid out in the recent 2nd @RockefellerFdn report https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/national-covid-19-testing-and-tracing-action-plan/