COVID-19 A Major Election Issue In US

It is personal contact that promotes the transmission of the COVID-19 virus and with the easing of restrictions on social distancing and the rising mobility in most of the 50 states of the United States, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) of the University of Washington in Seattle came out Friday with this forecast:

There will be nearly more than 135,000 deaths in the US beginning in August due to the growing contacts among people, along with increases in testing and contact tracing, and warming seasonal temperatures. Among the individual states, the IHME forecast 3,632 deaths for Texas, 4,913 for Georgia, and 32,132 for New York.

On the same day, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore which has been issuing daily reports of infections and deaths put US deaths at 159,841 and infections at 4,867,916. Johns Hopkins’ tally for the entire world that day was 710,564 deaths and 18,912,947 infections.