Nearly 770,000 lives worldwide could be saved from COVID-19 between now and Jan. 1 through proven measures, such as wearing a mask and social distancing, according to global projections of the COVID-19 pandemic by nation, developed by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington’s School of Medicine, in Seattle.
Cumulative deaths expected by Jan. 1 total 2.8 million, about