As states relax social distancing orders and reopen businesses, computer modeling shows that the projected death toll from the novel coronavirus will increase, Reuters reports.
The University of Washington’s predictive model has, for months, been cited by White House officials and officials at the state level as a guiding principle for how the pandemic would play out in the U.S. That model had, until recently, bee predicting that the U.S. would see 67,000 deaths from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, by August.
However, scientists have revised that figure upward, to 74,000. That upward revision is based on the fact that several states are reopening after having been in virtual lockdown for weeks.
Some scientists and public health officials have been warning for some time that the decision to reopen in some states is rushed, and have expressed concern that the move to get life back to normal is coming too soon.
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