Grim projection: 200,000 dead by Election Day

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After a recent surge in coronavirus cases, the national death toll is now expected to eclipse 200,000 by Election Day, according to forecasters

Inside the PolicyLab, Rubin’s team recently discussed whether something as extreme as another national lockdown would even be enough at this point to get the U.S. back on track ahead of a fall that’s expected to bring both the coronavirus and seasonal flu.

Quanquan Gu, an assistant professor of computer science at UCLA, also said his models look very different today than they did a couple months ago. Back then, Gu thought there could be 131,000 deaths by October. The U.S. has already surpassed that total, and now Gu believes it could see 162,000 deaths by October.

Government policies will also play a crucial role, but even as the projections have become increasingly dire, Trump administration officials continued to downplay the crisis, insisting that the virus should not disrupt daily life across much of the nation. Still, top officials have focused their efforts largely on reviving the economy and encouraging Americans to learn to live with an ever-present pandemic.

Yet Trump remains adamant that the U.S. seek a return to normalcy in spite of warnings from public health experts and even some of his own advisers that it may be dangerous to do so.

 

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This is crap, death numbers are down. Only thing up is the testing of 750,000 daily. Go away Politico.

If flu/pneumonia/ other are labeled Covid, sure, why not.

12357Prime It’ll be higher than that.

despite your cries to scare the shit out of the country we will be just fine we know the numbers 2.2million dead if we did not slow the curve we did that and we have 130,000 deaths one is to much but here we are out of 328 million people notice how they highlighted Election day

Ah..so IT IS about the election. We suspected as much. fakenews

Mob connected game show host vs. emails.

Thanks to the Superspreader-in-Chief we get this as an outcome.....what happened to Trump as the 'I alone can fix this' we heard in 2016?

So all 200,000 will be voting for Biden, then?

Now show the progressive decline in deaths.

Oh my goodness that is so scary..

Why is this grim. Many of the people with co-morbidity would have died anyhow. It's not like its 1,2,3,5 percent of population. We will never achieve herd immunity at the pace we are going. We need to take the precautions we can but open up entire country fully.

Because forecasters have been right so far 🤷‍♀️

Pesky BLm riots

Who's forecasting Rachel Maddow

Weren't they predicting 200K by June?

“Don’t sing in church, don’t go to work, don’t visit your dying mother, but go out and protest!”

The death toll after Election Day will be worse. So many liberal heads will explode when realDonaldTrump is re-elected

No worries bro. Don't care.

Then it will stop being reported.

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