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Steve Clark, PhD is a retired university professor with a PhD in immunology and a past Special Fellow of the Leukemia Society of America. Clark has published dozens of papers based on his research and holds two drug patents. He taught medical and graduate students about cancer biology and genetics, and about research ethics. He also directed an NIH-funded PhD Graduate Program and chaired several executive-level faculty committees. Clark served on the University Chancellor’s Speaker’s Bureau. While retired, Clark has been blogging on the COVID pandemic, which is the subject of his next book.

Grim US Statistics

The statistics for COVID deaths in the US are sobering as we approach 100,000 dead in four months.

  • COVID is now the third leading cause of death in the US, trailing only cancer and heart disease.
  • All deaths in the US are up about 30% since late March according to the National Center for Health Statistics.
  • NCHS data also show a huge spike in the weekly death average for 2020 beginning late March through early April compared to the weekly average for the same time period 2017-2019.
  • Between 2000-2018 deaths from flu AND pneumonia combined averaged 57,000 annually. NCHS and Johns Hopkins University data show that between February-May 24, 2020, COVID-19 deaths have almost reached 100,000 in the US.

And all of that is WITH isolation measures.

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