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3. "A total" sounds like that's the end amount

Sun May 10, 2020, 02:39 PM

May 2020

And we know there will be more deaths after August.

If the rate of 1500+ a day deaths keeps up, we'll be at 200K by this time August. It might level off, of course, and there might be new treatments and the health-care workers might come up with more ways to keep people alive until they're better...

But 137K in 90 days when we're already at about 80K?

I think that will mostly be achieved by severe undercounting, and I really hope the states resist doing that. Trump's lackeys, of course, will rely on that.

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Key coronavirus model projects 137k deaths in U.S. by August [View all] TomCADem May 2020 OP

It seems to still be too low. pandr32 May 2020 #1

The dead don't go to hospitals. They go to the morge. TomCADem May 2020 #2

That's probably how we will eventually find out. pandr32 May 2020 #8

"A total" sounds like that's the end amount dawg day May 2020 #3

I wish that model hadn't received so much attention. Buckeye_Democrat May 2020 #4

Just passed eighty thousand deaths this morning. Swede May 2020 #5

These are such bullshit numbers. ananda May 2020 #6

We're at 80,000 now. patphil May 2020 #7

I'd add at least 100,000 to that number Blasphemer May 2020 #9

We'll be there by the end of June, if not sooner Warpy May 2020 #10

Same thing Brontosaurus told Tyrannosaurus Rex bucolic_frolic May 2020 #11