Iran Press/America: The last time Americans faced a fall and winter like this, World War I was just ending.
A months-long pandemic exploded in the fall of 1918, killing 195,000 Americans in just the month of October, CNN reported.
Fast-forward 102 years and the US is on track for another devastating fall and winter.
Health experts say colder weather, the flu season, reopened schools and pandemic fatigue are a recipe for the most challenging months yet in the fight against coronavirus.
Until then, the daily US death toll is expected to steadily climb through the end of this year, reaching more than 2,900 US deaths a day by December 27, according to the IHME's projections Monday.
There are two main reasons for that projected surge, IHME Director Christopher Murray said.
"First, as case counts have come down in some states, we tend to see that people become less careful, they tend to have more contact," he said. "But then the most important effect is the seasonality of the virus -- that people go indoors, transmission happens more.
"That's why our model shows the huge surge that we really expect to take off in October and accelerate in November in December."
At least 720 new coronavirus deaths and 42,449 new cases were reported in the United States on Oct. 6. Over the past week, there has been an average of 44,101 cases per day, an increase of 6 percent from the average two weeks earlier.
As of Wednesday morning, more than 7,529,300 people in the United States have been infected with the coronavirus, and at least 210,700 have died, according to a New York Times database.
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