Experts warn that a huge coronavirus wave could arrive as early as mid-October

[Yoni Heisler]

• With the U.S. still struggling to decrease the rate of new coronavirus infections, experts believe a second wave is poised to arrive in mid-October.
• Keeping new infections down over the next few weeks will be especially critical as the impending flu season might cause a huge spike in new coronavirus cases.
• In a worst-case scenario, experts believe the coronavirus death toll in the U.S. could reach 400,000 before 2021.

One of the more frustrating things about the coronavirus is that it's lingered in the U.S. simply because many people still refuse to follow basic safety guidelines like social distancing and mask-wearing. And so, nearly six months after the pandemic began, the United States is still struggling to keep new coronavirus infections down. Over the past few days, the average daily number of new coronavirus cases has hovered around 35,000, a figure Dr. Anthony Fauci recently called "unacceptable." Additionally, Fauci has emphasized on numerous occasions that the U.S. could see a huge spike in infections if we can't get the number of new infections down below 10,000 before fall.

Echoing this perspective, we've seen an avalanche of doctors and infectious disease experts point out that we'll likely see a surge of new cases come October due to colder weather and the arrival of flu season.

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