The new coronavirus pandemic in the United States could be less deadly than expected, according to new projections from the University of Washington, which now expects 60,000 deaths, a decrease of 26% compared to its last forecast.
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The downward revision of the projections of this university, often cited by the US federal authorities, coincides with the relative optimism of politicians who think that the pandemic may have peaked in certain parts of the country. Two of the main healthcare players in the United States, chief medical officer Jerome Adams and director of the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) Robert Redfield, also estimated on Tuesday that coronavirus could kill fewer people than expected.
A week ago, the group formed in the White House to coordinate the response to the health crisis had released a graph assessing the number of deaths linked to Covid-19 between 100,000 and 240,000 in the United States, provided that the Americans respect the barrier measures and gestures intended to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
The University of Washington has also revised its projection of the peak of death to Sunday where it expects 2212 people to succumb to the disease. Across the country, the virus has killed nearly 13,000 people at this point and contaminated some 400,000 people.
