The US projects to have had 88 000 COVID-19 deaths by August 2020 VOA reports. The 88k COVId-19 deaths projection is better than the initial projections according to the publication:
WATCH: The US Projects To Have 88 000 COVID-19 Deaths By August 2020
These figures cause panic because most of these people are very old or they have underlying issues. Last year 60,000 people died of flu in the U.S. and it was not even newsworthy