On March 31, the White House projected that regardless of the practice of social distancing measures, 100,000 to 240,000 U.S. citizens may lose their lives with COVID-19. These numbers are not shocking to those who have been monitoring and following the news about the COVID-19 crisis in the US.

Projected Deaths from COVID-19 in the United States

Doctor Anthony Fauci, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases' director, had already given the projection fo 100,000 to 200,000 COVID-19 deaths in the United States of America.

The University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, or IHME, has also provided a similar projection of 81,766 COVID-19 deaths in the US by August 4.

However, even if they are only forecasts, these numbers reveal that the war against an invisible enemy will be fatal as other battles that the history of the US have encountered, according to a recent article.

Comparing the COVID-19 Crisis with other Pandemics and Devastating Events in the US

There have been a lot of pandemics and other crises that have swept the U.S. before the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of those include the Revolutionary War, the 9/11 Attacks, and the Vietnam War.

Some people are also making comparisons to the death toll in the U.S. due to other pandemics that reached the country and other significant issues, and different organizations and individuals are researching data to make those comparisons and put meaning in them.

During the Great Depression in 1929, a lot of people lost their jobs, and a lot of aspects of the community were affected. In comparison to the current records about the COVID-19 crisis, the effects of the Great Depression on employment and the economy is still greater, says an article.

Comparison with the Vietnam War

After the White House gave its projections, experts were able to make comparisons to the COVID-19 crisis with the Vietnam War, where 60,000 people were reported to have lost their lives on the battlefield.

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The Death Toll from the Civil War

The projections made on the Civil War's death toll still dominates other military conflicts that the United States of America had faced. The results may even be higher compared to the death toll of the US during the Spanish Flu Pandemic in 1918.

Also, some experts are estimating a total of 750,000 to 850,000, and the total Confederate deaths are unclear. A lot is seeing this number of the alarming number of deaths of people as a vision of the significant impact the Civil War had led. Additionally, the total includes civilian deaths and other deaths related to the war, and it happened after the end of the war.

The Reliability and Accuracy of Predictions Being Made about the COVID-19 Crisis

Right now, the end of the battle with COVID-19 is not yet clear. There are a lot of factors to consider when experts talk about their predictions on when and how the pandemic will end. These factors include the actions of people who provide care to patients, medical researchers, and cooperation with the government on obeying guidelines to prevent the spread of the deadly illness.