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2020

June 24, 2020
New IHME COVID-19 Forecasts for Arab League Nations Find More than 50,000 Deaths in Egypt
News Release

In its first projections for nations of the Arab League, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington is forecasting 53,366 people (with a range of 23,158 to 113,903) in Egypt will die from COVID-19 through October 1.

June 24, 2020
New IHME COVID-19 Model Projects Nearly 180,000 US Deaths
News Release

In its first projections comparing different actions to control COVID-19 transmission, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington is forecasting nearly 180,000 in the United States will die by October 1. 

June 24, 2020
New IHME COVID-19 Model Forecasts More Than 166,000 Deaths in Brazil by October 1
News Release

In its first projections comparing different actions to control COVID-19 transmission, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington is forecasting 166,362 people in Brazil will die through October 1. 

June 24, 2020
New IHME COVID-19 Model Forecasts 88,160 Deaths in Mexico by October 1
News Release

In its first projections comparing different actions to control COVID-19 transmission, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington is forecasting 88,160 people in Mexico will die through October 1. 

June 11, 2020
IHME models show second wave of COVID-19 beginning September 15 in US
News Release

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) has extended its US COVID-19 forecasts through October 1. The forecast shows 169,890 deaths in the US by October 1, with a possible range between 133,201 and 290,222. 

June 8, 2020
New IHME COVID-19 forecasts show deaths in Mexico exceeding 50,000
News Release

New forecasts from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington find COVID-19 deaths in Mexico exceeding 50,000 through early August and beyond, a more than six-fold increase from the Institute’s previous forecast, on May 12, of nearly 7,000 deaths. 

May 25, 2020
New IHME Projection Sees COVID-19 Deaths in Brazil at More than 125,000
News Release

New forecasts from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington find COVID-19 deaths exceeding 125,000 through early August and continuing to increase after that. 

May 20, 2020
New Study Finds 2 Billion People Without Proper Sanitation at High Risk for Coronavirus
News Release

Without access to soap and clean water, more than 2 billion people in low- and middle-income nations – a quarter of the world’s population – have a greater likelihood of acquiring and transmitting the coronavirus than those in wealthy countries.

May 12, 2020
New IHME COVID-19 Projections: First Forecasts for Select Nations in Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East
News Release

In its first forecasts for COVID-19 deaths outside North America and Europe, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington is preliminarily projecting nearly 90,000 deaths in Brazil through early August, as well as more than 5,000 deaths each in Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru.

May 12, 2020
New Projection Sees COVID-19 Deaths in Brazil at Nearly 90,000
News Release

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington is projecting nearly 90,000 deaths in Brazil related to COVID-19 by early August.

May 12, 2020
New IHME COVID-19 Projections: Mexico, Peru, and Ecuador Facing Combined Deaths of Nearly 20,000
News Release

In its first forecasts for COVID-19 outside North America and Europe, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington is preliminarily projecting nearly 20,000 deaths in Mexico, Peru, and Ecuador combined through early August.

May 10, 2020
People Begin Moving About as States Open Up, Leading IHME to Project Slight Increase in US COVID-19 Deaths
News Release

As some states continue to ease social distancing mandates and new data are acquired on people’s movements, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington is projecting a slight increase in expected COVID-19 deaths in the US.

May 4, 2020
New IHME Forecast Projects Nearly 135,000 COVID-19 Deaths in US
News Release

New COVID-19 forecasts for the US project nearly 135,000 deaths through the beginning of August, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. 

April 17, 2020
IHME to Hold Media Briefing at 4 PM (Eastern) Today (Details Below)
News Release

New COVID-19 state-by-state US analyses from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) find that as early as May 4, some states may be able to relax some aspects of social distancing measures so long as “robust containment strategies” are implemented to prevent a second wave of infections.

April 7, 2020
Correction in Uncertainty Intervals for Cumulative COVID-19 Death Forecasts in Europe
News Release

An unintentional upload error to our data visualization tool has resulted in IHME issuing incorrect ranges of cumulative deaths in Europe related to COVID-19 in an April 6 press release and on its website. 

April 6, 2020
New COVID-19 forecasts for Europe: Italy & Spain have passed the peak of their epidemics; UK, early in its epidemic, faces a fast-mounting death toll
News Release

New COVID-19 estimates find that, among European nations, the peak daily death rate from the pandemic will occur during the third week of April, with the pandemic spreading from Southern Europe. 

April 5, 2020
New IHME COVID-19 forecasts find lower hospital bed need, epidemics starting to peak confirms social distancing works
News Release

Updated COVID-19 estimates find that need for hospital beds, ICU beds, and ventilators needed to deal with the COVID-19 epidemic are less than previously estimated.   

March 26, 2020
New COVID-19 forecasts: US hospitals could be overwhelmed in the second week of April by demand for ICU beds, and US deaths could total 81,000 by July
News Release

In a forecast based on new data analyses, researchers find demand for ventilators and beds in US hospital intensive care units (ICUs) will far exceed capacity for COVID-19 patients as early as the second week of April. 

March 3, 2020
Low back and neck pain tops US health spending
News Release

Americans in 2016 spent an estimated $380 billion on low back and neck pain, as well as on joint and limb pain, and other musculoskeletal disorders.

February 13, 2020
Chronic kidney disease a ‘global killer in plain sight’
News Release

Rates of people needing dialysis have increased more than 40% since 1990, but access to this life-saving treatment is still markedly inequitable, according to a new scientific study. 

January 22, 2020
Men twice as likely as women to die of liver cirrhosis
News Release

Twice as many men as women are dying from liver cirrhosis, according to a new scientific study. 

January 16, 2020
Sepsis associated with 1 in 5 deaths globally, double previous estimate
News Release

Twice as many people as previously believed are dying of sepsis worldwide, according to an analysis published today in The Lancet. Among them are a disproportionately high number of children in poor areas. 

January 8, 2020
Findings on education, malnutrition ‘deeply disturbing’ with United Nations’ goals 10 years away
News Release

For the first time, researchers have mapped years of education and child malnutrition across all low- and middle-income countries at the level of individual districts. The findings include precision maps illuminating disparities within countries and regions often obscured by national-level analyses.

January 8, 2020
Probability of dying from road injury has dropped worldwide in all but 5 nations
News Release

Road injuries have become more frequent but less fatal over the past three decades, according to a new scientific study. The probability of dying from a road accident increased in only five nations since 1990 – Central African Republic, Jamaica, Somalia, Swaziland, and United Arab Emirates.

2019

December 19, 2019
Study finding poor diets responsible for more deaths than tobacco ranks 11th in Altmetric 100 for 2019
News Release

A Global Burden Disease study published last April and led by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation that concludes poor diets cause one in five deaths globally has been ranked 11th in the 2019 Altmetric 100, the annual listing by the UK-based data science firm of research that most captured the public’s interest. 

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