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    Will at least 200,000 COVID-19 deaths be reported in any single calendar month in 2020?

    Created by Pshyeah on {{qctrl.question.created_time | dateStr}}
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    Cross-posted on Metaculus: Pandemics.

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    Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), formerly known as 2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease, is an infectious disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, a virus closely related to the SARS virus. The disease is the cause of the ongoing 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic.

    As of 17 April 2020, over 2.1 million cases and over 147,000 deaths have been reported, mostly in the United States.

    This question asks: Within any single calendar month in 2020, will at least 200,000 COVID-19 deaths, worldwide, be reported?

    This question resolves as the number reported by:

    • The Johns Hopkins CSSE dashboard, or, if that source is no longer available or no longer considered reliable,
    • the WHO situation reports, or another source judged credible by Metaculus administrators.

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    Biology – Infectious Disease
    Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19)

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