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Coronavirus Cases Increasing in 18 US States as Model Forecasts More Deaths

Posted on the 16 June 2020 by Thiruvenkatam Chinnagounder @tipsclear

A few weeks after the lifting of residence orders, some American states see a record number of hospitalizations with Covid-19 while thousands of other Americans are infected every day.

As of Saturday, coronavirus cases were still on the rise in at least 18 states - many of which were near record highs.

The map below shows how the coronavirus numbers from the states last week compare to the previous week.

Coronavirus cases increasing in 18 US states as model forecasts more deathsCoronavirus cases increasing in 18 US states as model forecasts more deaths

Remember: Some states may experience an increase in the number of new cases simply because they test more people.

Increase in hospitalizations: Texas reported its highest number of Covid-19 hospitalizations on Monday. At least 2,326 people were hospitalized. There have been at least 89,108 cases of Covid-19 and at least 1,983 deaths in the state.

The model predicts more deaths: And a closely watched coronavirus model that predicts deaths from Covid-19 now predicts that there will be more than 201,000 deaths in the United States by October 1.

Last week, the model, from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, predicted 170,000 deaths for the same period. The model was often cited by the White House at the start of the pandemic and is one of 19 models currently featured on the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website.

To date, the model predicts that 201,129 people will die from Covid-19 in the United States by October 1, with a possible range of 171,551 to 269,395 deaths.

Trump's assertions about the tests: The model comes in as President Donald Trump said on Monday that if they stopped testing the coronavirus, they would have no case.

"If you don't test, you have no case," he said. "If we stopped testing now, we would have very few cases, if any. But we have it."


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