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Let’s go first to the rising number of infections and predictions out of Washington University that US infections could pass 200,000 by October. The forecast projects 201,129 deaths due to COVID-19 by October, mainly due to the reopening measures under way, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington said on Monday.
The IHME raised its estimate by 18 % from 169,890 and said Florida would be among the hardest hit states, with an estimated 18,675 deaths, up 186% from a previous estimate of 6,559 on 10 June.
Hello and welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, with me, Alison Rourke.
We kick off today as global infections pass 8 million cases. The US has a quarter of those cases (2.1 million). A new forecast by the University on Washington has estimated there may be 201,000 deaths due to COVID-19 in the United States by the beginning of October, mainly due to reopening measures under way. Currently, the death toll there stands at over 116,000.
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