Health
US coronavirus death toll predicted to reach 295000 by December – WSWS
The IHME projection of nearly 300,000 deaths by December exposes the lie that it is safe to reopen the schools.
By
Bryan Dyne
8 August 2020
The latest projection from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington estimates that 295,011 people will have died from the coronavirus pandemic in the United States by December 1. This figure is almost double the current tally, which stands after yesterday at more than 164,000.
Chris Murray, the lead researcher on the project, noted in an interview with National Public Radio that the coming onset of fall and winter we…
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