When the coronavirus pandemic hit the US earlier this year, scientific models forecasting hundreds of thousands of deaths were met by some people with derision. Those models have been unfortunately vindicated. And they're providing fresh warnings that a recent uptick in cases could mean that the U.S. death toll could almost double in the next four months. … Now, a widely cited model developed by the IHME at the UoW suggests that the U.S. could total more than 378,000 coronavirus deaths by January.