Models: COVID deaths to surge before Omicron wave subsides

Modelers are forecasting that 50,000 to 300,000 more Americans could die by the time the latest COVID-19 wave subsides in mid-March, the Baltimore Sun reports. The seven-day rolling average for daily new COVID-19 deaths in the United States has been trending upward since mid-November, reaching nearly 1,700 on Jan. 17 – still below the peak of 3,300 in January 2021.