FAccording to a widely observed model, researchers fear even more corona deaths in the United States than last forecast. By early December, a total of almost 310,000 people could die after being infected with the virus, around 15,000 more than assumed two weeks ago. That came out on Friday evening from an update of the model by the researchers at the IHME Institute at the University of Washington in Seattle.
If 95 percent of people always wore masks in public, the number of victims by December 1 could be significantly lower at around 240,000, the researchers said.
So far, around 175,000 people have died in the USA after being infected with Sars-CoV-2. Most recently, around 1,000 people died every day. The IHME model predicts an increase in the number of deaths to around 2000 per day at the start of the cold season, from around mid-October.
