Mark Gongloff, Columnist

200,000 Coronavirus Deaths Is an Undercount

We’ve already passed this grim milestone.

September 21, 2020 at 8:55 PM UTC

Mark Gongloff is a Bloomberg Opinion editor and columnist covering climate change. He previously worked for Fortune.com, the Huffington Post and the Wall Street Journal.

TOPSHOT - Nurses and healthcare workers mourn and remember their colleagues who died during the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (which causes COVID-19) during a demonstration outside Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan on April 10, 2020 in New York City. - The global coronavirus death toll topped 100,000 on April 10 as Easter celebrations around the world kicked off in near-empty churches with billions of people stuck indoors to halt the pandemic's deadly worldwide march. (Photo by Johannes EISELE / AFP) (Photo by JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images)Photographer: JOHANNES EISELE/AFP

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About seven months ago, the U.S. suffered its first known coronavirus death. Three months later, the official toll had risen to 100,000. Now that number has doubled — and it’s probably an undercount.