TOPLINEA pair of studies published on Monday by the British scientific journal Nature, found that shutdown orders helped prevent roughly 60 million Covid-19 infections in the United States and prevented approximately 3.1 million deaths across Europe. The number of the COVID-19 coronavirus confirmed cases in the United States exceeded one million and exceeded three million in the world, according of COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). The estimates suggest that, without certain policies in place from the beginning of the pandemic in January through early April, there would be about 60 million more coronavirus infections in the U.S. and an additional 500 million total infections across all six countries. On Monday, the total number of global Covid-19 cases surpassed 7 million, with over 400,000 dead (more than a quarter of those deaths have occurred in America). Further Reading:Coronavirus Infections Are On The Rise In 21 U.S. States, With Cases Spiking In California, Arizona And North Carolina (Forbes)Shutdowns through early April prevented about 60 million US coronavirus infections, study says (CNN)Emergency COVID-19 measures prevented more than 500 million infections, study finds (Berkely)

Source: Forbes June 08, 2020 19:52 UTC