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Models predicted 200,000 Covid-19 deaths. Here’s what they say now.

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When Covid-19 arrived in the U.S. earlier this year, “scientific models forecasting hundreds of thousands of deaths were met by some people with derision” (including you know who).

The models turned out to be true, and “they’re providing fresh warnings,” NBC News reported on Thursday, September 24, 2020 (read story here).

“If we go back to March, at that time, we were saying if this thing is not handled very carefully, we could end up with 200,000 or 300,000 deaths,” said Alessandro Vespignani,” a coronavirus modeler at Northeastern University. “At that time, everyone was saying that’s impossible.”

In the U.S., case numbers are rising again, primarily among young people. Coronavirus modelers, who’ve seen “the writing on the wall, are watching with “a mixture of horror and frustration.”

The University of Washington’s widely cited model now suggests “the U.S. could total more than 378,000 coronavirus deaths by January.” That means 178,000 people who are healthy and alive today will be stone cold dead three months from now.

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