A Harvard health expert predicts an additional 100,000 US coronavirus deaths by September

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• A Harvard health expert said he expects the US to surpass 200,000 deaths sometime in September. 
• Close to 113,000 people have already died from the coronavirus in the US. 
• The main model being used by officials to estimate the impact of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States also revised its death toll this week to 193,347 COVID-19 deaths by October 1. 
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A Harvard health expert said he expects an additional 100,000 deaths in the US by September. 

Dr. Ashish Jha, the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that the current data shows that somewhere between 800 to 1,000 Americans are dying from the virus daily, and even if that does not increase, the US is poised to cross 200,000 deaths sometime in September.

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