Up to 19,500 new COVID-19 deaths are likely to be reported in the week ending December 26, according to forecasts received by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
On this day, December 7, in 1941, a Japanese military attack at the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii killed 2,403 Americans. That’s less than the record number who died in a day last week when more than 2,800 COVID-19 deaths were reported on December 3, the country’s highest daily death toll since the outbreak began. And more Americans could potentially die today of the virus than the number killed at Pearl Harbor nearly 80 years ago, as the country’s latest seven-day average of deaths approached 2,300 on Sunday. The figure has been rising sharply from early November, after declining from early August and flattening out from early September, according to Worldometer. The latest average death count surpassed the daily death toll of around 2,093 projected for Monday by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. According to forecasts by 37 modeling groups received last week by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), „the number of newly reported COVID-19 deaths will likely increase over the next four weeks, with 9,500 to 19,500 new COVID-19 fatalities likely to be reported in the week ending December 26,2020.
