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Covid-19 Case Counts Have Been Spiking for Weeks. Why Aren’t Deaths?

Markham Heid
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5 min readJul 13, 2020

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Medical staff push a stretcher with a deceased Covid-19 patient to a car outside of the United Memorial Medical Center on June 30, 2020 in Houston, Texas. Photo: Go Nakamura/Stringer/Getty Images

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Elemental is a former publication from Medium for science-backed health and wellness coverage. Currently inactive and not taking submissions.

Markham Heid
Markham Heid

Written by Markham Heid

I’m a frequent contributor at TIME, the New York Times, and other media orgs. I write mostly about health and science. I like long walks and the Grateful Dead.

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