COVID-19: 100,000 deaths likely by Memorial Day in the United States

As of May 20, 2020 more than 93,000 deaths in people laboratory-confirmed to have COVID-19 have been reported in the United States and more than 1.5 million persons have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2.  All 50 states have now begun partially reopening.

It is likely that this coming Monday, the number of confirmed deaths will reach 100,000, adding even further poignancy to Memorial Day 2020.

Worldwide, in 188 nations (Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center). as of May 20 more than 326,000 deaths and 4.97 million confirmed cases have been reported.

The world’s first "flu+COVID Winter" starts next month in the southern hemisphere. The U.S.and the other nations in the northern hemisphere will, hopefully, pay close attention to what happens from June to August in the southern hemisphere for multiple reasons.One of these reasons is to gain insight into the world’s first flu+COVID winter before it occurs next December-to-March in the northern hemisphere.