Los Angeles Times:

“We’re seeing the equivalent of two 747s crashing per day, killing everybody onboard,” said Dr. Carlos del Rio, a global health epidemiologist at Emory University, expressing concern that the public had not grasped the scale of devastation.

“You’d imagine, at some point, someone would say, ‘What’s going on with planes?’” he said. “There would be outrage. And I’m not seeing the outrage.”

Federal researchers recently said they suspected that the pandemic has killed tens of thousands more Americans indirectly — people who avoided hospital care for other illnesses or overdosed on drugs because of psychological stress, for example — bringing the true U.S. death toll closer to 300,000.