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NPR: New global coronavirus death forecast is chilling — and controversial

By NPR.

Published Sept. 6, 2020. Updated Sept. 6 at 5:26 am

Members of the Red Cross, nurses, and workers from the cement company CEMEX sanitize the Red Cross Hospital's ambulance area in Monterrey, state of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, on April 28, 2020 during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

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New estimates released this week suggest the global impact of the coronavirus pandemic will reach even greater levels of awfulfulness before 2020 is over: A prominent forecasting team projects that between now and Jan. 1, the virus will kill an additional 1.9 million people worldwide, pushing the total death toll by year’s end to above 2.8 million.