Paramedics assist a Covid-19 patient to her home after her recovery from an emergency C-section, in Stamford, Connecticut, on April 25, 2020. | John Moore/Getty Images

It’s time to fix the glaring gaps in death data and drastically improve measures to keep the coronavirus out of nursing homes.

As we hit a gruesome milestone — 100,000 reported deaths from the novel coronavirus in the United States — we must focus on the single most important part of the response: saving the most lives.

The SARS-CoV-2 virus is likely to kill more than 1 million people worldwide by the end of this year, and 60 million people will die this year from other, often preventable causes, as they do every year. As we confront the most devastating infectious disease threat the world has faced in a century, unless we are more careful, there will be