36,000 coronavirus deaths could have been prevented if states implemented measures just 1 week earlier, new models suggests

By May 3 the coronavirus had already claimed more than 65,000 lives in the United States as it had infected more than one million Americans. The totals continued to grow even after states began implemented preventative measures in March. Had cities and states imposed strict social distancing measures only a week earlier, the death toll in the country would have been sliced by more than half, …