University of Washington researchers estimated on Monday that 145 728 people could die of COVID-19 in the United States by August, raising their grim forecast by more than 5 000 fatalities in a matter of days.
The new estimate came on the same day that Texas reported its highest number of hospitalisations so far in the coronavirus pandemic and a total of 22 US states showed an uptick in the number of new confirmed cases, according to a count kept by Johns Hopkins University.
Among the states with the sharpest increases were Michigan and Arizona, according to Johns Hopkins.
A total of more than 1.9 million cases of COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus, have been reported in the United States, according to a Reuters tally,which has confirmed 110 000 deaths.
