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Key Coronavirus Forecast Predicts Over 410,000 Total U.S. Deaths by Jan. 1: "Worst is Yet to Come"

posted by martyb on Saturday September 05 2020, @07:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the keep-your-distance-and-wear-your-mask dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for aristarchus:

Key coronavirus forecast predicts over 410,000 total U.S. deaths by Jan. 1: 'The worst is yet to come':

In June, IHME predicted that the death toll in the U.S. would reach 200,000 by October, which appears to be on track.

[...] IHME previously projected 317,697 deaths by Dec. 1. The model now predicts that the daily death toll could rise to nearly 3,000 per day in December, up from over 800 per day now, according to Hopkins data.

[...] The most likely [IHME] scenario estimates that Covid-19 will kill 410,450 people in the U.S. by Jan. 1. The worst-case scenario, which assumes that restrictions and mask directives will ease, projects up to 620,028 people in the U.S. will die by then and the best-case scenario, which assumes universal masking, predicts that 288,380 people in the U.S. will die from Covid-19 in 2020.

[...] Despite the drop in new cases, the number of deaths caused by Covid-19 everyday in the U.S. has remained high, at nearly 1,000 new deaths per day, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

[The 9/11 terrorist attacks caused 2,977 deaths; the current US COVID-19 fatality rate is like having two 9/11 attacks each week. --Ed.]

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Opportunist on Saturday September 05 2020, @10:41PM (2 children)

    by Opportunist (5545) on Saturday September 05 2020, @10:41PM (#1047012)

    Killing them? Are you daft? Dead peasant drive the cost of them up, doesn't supply and demand mean anything to you?

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2020, @11:47PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2020, @11:47PM (#1047030)

    In the global economy the fat cats just outsource to the next source of cheap peasants when the current pool of labor gets tired of being shit on.

    • (Score: 2) by Opportunist on Sunday September 06 2020, @04:01PM

      by Opportunist (5545) on Sunday September 06 2020, @04:01PM (#1047191)

      Oh c'mon, where's the fun in belittling some foreigner who is happy to lick my boots and doesn't even understand when I put him in his place?