Two separate models revised with new data in recent days project the rise in North Carolina’s COVID-19 death toll will begin to slow in the next few weeks.
Raleigh, N. C. — Two separate models revised with new data in recent days project the rise in North Carolina’s COVID-19 death toll will begin to slow in the next few weeks.
More than 400 people in North Carolina have lost their lives to the disease caused by the novel coronavirus since it began spreading in the state in late March. Two new models – one from researchers at the University of Washington and another from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – predict hundreds of additional deaths over the next few weeks.
But the models also show that the number of deaths per day may have reached a peak.
The state-level CDC forecast, a composite of nine other models from universities and public health researchers, predicts 762 deaths in North Carolina through the week ending May 23.
Like most other states, however, the CDC ensemble shows the growth in those deaths day over day slowing in North Carolina.
