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

Experts say a handful of variables explain the apparent disconnect between cases and deaths

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

After slowly gathering momentum during the first quarter of the year, the number of U.S. Covid-19 cases and deaths surged in early April. By the middle of that month, more than 30,000 Americans…