A woman walks past a mural painted by Ruben Rojas as part of the campaign to create 1,000 murals on closed businesses, created by the company Beautify, as the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Santa Monica, California, U.S., May 4, 2020. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
(Reuters) - A new forecast projects nearly 135,000 deaths due to COVID-19 in the United States through the beginning of August mainly due to reopening measures under way, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington said on Monday.
The forecast U.S. death toll through early August totaled 134,475, a midrange between 95,092 and 242,890, the IHME said. The revised projection almost doubles the number of deaths foreseen in the United States since the last estimate in mid-April.
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