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The US's third coronavirus surge could be the deadliest yet - 4 charts show a troubling trend
2 monthes ago | By Business Insider
Summary List Placement More than 140,000 more people could die of the coronavirus in the US between now and February.
That's according to the latest model from the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics, which predicted in a paper published Friday that the US's total death count could surpass 511,000 by February 28.
"Even if we do better on a case-by-case basis, I think that the number of deaths that we're going to experience this fall and winter is going to dwarf what we've already been through," Megan Ranney, an emergency-medicine physician at Brown University, recently...
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