Coronavirus deaths in the US will likely double over the next four months

[Jacob Siegal]

• The US coronavirus death toll could reach 410,000 by January 1st, according to the latest projections from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).
• Over 186,000 people in the US have died from COVID-19, but that number could more than double if the country doesn't change its approach to the coronavirus pandemic.
• A universal mask order could save over 120,000 lives over the next four months.

As of Friday morning, nearly 187,000 Americans have died of COVID-19, according to the latest data from the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center. It's difficult to even process tragedy on that scale, but according to the latest projections from one of the most frequently cited epidemiological models on the planet, the death toll in the United States is going to grow even more rapidly throughout the fall and winter seasons.

According to the COVID-19 model from the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, the novel coronavirus will have killed 410,451 people in the US by January 2021. That's more than double the number of deaths the country has reported since the virus first reached our shores, and begins to approach the total number of US military and civilians deaths throughout the entirety of World War II.

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