economic downturns would take a holiday was all but crushed this week. The virus continues to rampage through parts of the U.S.
and engulf nations across the developing world, particularly India, Brazil and South Africa. It’s made a comeback in Japan as well as areas of Europe and China.At its current pace of about 250,000 or so new cases a day, there could be well more than 50 million infections worldwide by the end of 2020.
As for fatalities from the pandemic, “we’ll go well over a million," Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in California, estimated in mid-June.
There are currently about 674,000 coronavirus deaths globally, according to Johns Hopkins University data.The time until the release of a safe.