Washington, March 13 : An influential coronavirus model has predicted an estimated 599,000 cumulative deaths in the US by July 1.
This represents 75,000 additional deaths from March 8 to July 1, according to the latest forecast from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.
The IHME estimated that 87,200 lives will be saved by the projected Covid-19 vaccine rollout by July 1, Xinhua news agency.
Daily infections are expected to remain steady at over 125,000 per day until late March, and then steadily decline, according to the projection.
At some point from March through July 1, 18 states will have high or extreme stress on hospital beds, according to the IHME.
Daily Covid-19 cases and deaths continue to decline across the nation.
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