CDC: US COVID-19 death toll could reach 321,000 by mid-December
ATLANTA — A new report issued this week by the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the coronavirus death toll could reach up to 321,000 by the middle of December.
According to the CDC's "COVID-19 Forecasts: Deaths," models are predicting the number of coronavirus deaths will likely increase over the next four weeks, with between 10,600 and 21,400 new fatalities likely to be reported in the week ending Dec. 19, 2020.
The model predicts between 294,000 and 321,000 total coronavirus deaths will have been reported by that time.
As of Friday afternoon, Johns Hopkins University of Medicine had recorded more than 263,000 coronavirus deaths in the U.S., and more than 12.9 million confirmed cases, both figures far more than any other nation in the world.
Globally, Johns Hopkins has recorded more than 61.2 million coronavirus cases since the pandemic began.
_The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
