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applegrove

(118,617 posts) Wed May 13, 2020, 04:03 PM May 2020

147,000 projected to die due to COVID-19 by August 4 due to relaxing

social distancing. Jake Tapper CNN. And the virus may be here for good.

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147,000 projected to die due to COVID-19 by August 4 due to relaxing (Original Post) applegrove May 2020 OP

I fear it will be even higher than that. Alex4Martinez May 2020 #1

That's The Current Median ProfessorGAC May 2020 #2

Alex4Martinez

(2,193 posts)

1. I fear it will be even higher than that.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Wed May 13, 2020, 04:49 PM

May 2020

People are willingly interpreting the slightest loosening of restrictions to be a double green light back to normal.

And they will pay.

I'm grateful I have been a work at home person for a long time and hope I don't have to go back to working out of the home every day.

ProfessorGAC

(64,995 posts)

2. That's The Current Median

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Wed May 13, 2020, 05:22 PM

May 2020

The high end of the projection range of the IHME model is around 240,000
The low end was ~113,000.
They've been undershooting the whole 10 weeks, so it's likely to be much closer to the upper end.

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