CBS: Model predicts 100,000 more COVID deaths unless U.S. changes its ways
The U.S. is projected to see nearly 100,000 more COVID-19 deaths between now and December 1, according to the nation's most closely watched forecasting model.
But health experts say that toll could be cut in half if nearly everyone wore a mask in public spaces.
In other words, what the coronavirus has in store this fall depends on human behavior.
"Behavior is really going to determine if, when and how sustainably the current wave subsides," said Lauren Ancel Meyers, director of the University of Texas COVID-19 Modeling Consortium.
"We cannot stop Delta in its tracks, but we can change our behavior overnight."
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WNU Editor: Putting everything in perspective. The media, pundits, medical health specialists, some Republicans, and all Democrats "crucified" President Trump on his Covid response last year over numbers that are lower than what is happening now. And if this new model does become true, more Americans will have died in the fist year of President Biden's Presidency than President Trumps.