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Trump says there will be a vaccine before the end of the year “or maybe even sooner”. He says America will “defeat the virus” and emerge stronger than before. And that’s it on Covid-19.
As Trump beings speaking (nothing on coronavirus yet), I can tell you that the University of Washington on Thursday expanded the forecast about virus fatalities, projecting 317,697 deaths in the United States by 1 December.
The new forecast, by the university’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) reflects an increase of about 8,000 deaths from its previous forecast. However, the report also suggests that if 95% of Americans wore a mask, the death toll could be reduced by about 67,000 lives.