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Harvard health expert predicts an additional 100,000 US coronavirus deaths by September

Business Insider via Yahoo – “Close to 113,000 people have already died from the coronavirus in the US.  The main model being used by officials to estimate the impact of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States also revised its death toll this week to 193,347 COVID-19 deaths by October 1.  Dr. Ashish Jha, the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that the current data shows that somewhere between 800 to 1,000 Americans are dying from the virus daily, and even if that does not increase, the US is poised to cross 200,000 deaths sometime in September. “I think that is catastrophic. I think that is not something we have to be fated to live with,” Jha told CNN. “We can change the course. We can change course today.” So far close to 113,000 people have died from the coronavirus in the US. Jha stressed that the numbers he’s predicted are only for the next several months.  “The pandemic won’t be over in September,” Jha said. “So, I’m really worried about where we’re going to be in the weeks and months ahead.”…

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