—To date, at least 154,320 people in the U.S. have died as a result of COVID-19, according to the Johns Hopkins virus dashboard. And now, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is forecasting that the death toll could reach 182,000 by the fourth week of August, according to an internal government document obtained by Yahoo News and reported by AOL. That CDC model also forecasts between 5,000 and 11,000 new deaths related to the disease in a single week ending Aug. 22, AOL reported. Meanwhile, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, which has been updating its models on coronavirus forecasts, is projecting 230,822 COVID-19-related deaths by Nov. 1 in the U.S.
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—Mexico logged a record 9,556 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, according to Worldometer. The last record was hit yesterday, when Mexico reported 8,458 new COVID-19 cases, according to the health ministry, The Guardian reported. To date, the country has recorded 434,193 cases and 47,472 related deaths. "The government says the real number of infected people is likely considerably higher than the confirmed cases," according to The Guardian.
—U.S. President Donald Trump condemned the country's leading infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who said that the spike in U.S. cases compared with the sharp decline seen across Europe could be explained by different measures taken to control outbreaks. Whereas most European countries shut down their economies almost entirely (about 95%), the U.S. shut down just half of its economy, The Guardian reported. In a tweet, Trump wrote "We have more cases because we have tested far more than any other country, 60,000,000. If we tested less, there would be less cases. How did Italy, France & Spain do? Now Europe sadly has flare ups. Most of our governors worked hard & smart. We will come back STRONG!"
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However, whereas many states in the U.S. did follow strict social-distancing and masking measures, others did not; and many of those states are showing surges in both cases, hospitalizations and deaths related to COVID-19, news agencies have reported.
Source: Livescience.com
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