Massachusetts Predicted To Have More Than 10,000 Daily COVID-19 By December

A researcher tracking COVID-19 in the state of Massachusetts is reportedly predicting more than 10,000 daily cases by December.

David Lazer, who has been researching all things COVID-19 related in Massachusetts and the United States throughout the pandemic, told WCVB the current trend is very grim.

“The numbers are pretty ferocious. Cases per day doubled in three months, from July 1 to Oct. 1, and it took another month for them to double again, and then just 10 days for them to double yet again, and so we're on a trajectory where we're over 10,000 cases a day in December,” Lazer said via WCVB.

Lazer is a co-leader for a team of leading academics whose studies currently show that the spread is happening quickly as gatherings of people have doubled from its lowest point, indoor dining and gym usage have tripled and twice as many people are returning to work at their offices, WCVB reports.

“We really need some degree of coordinated behavior, and some of that is about individual responsibility and some of that will be coordinated acts by our institutions, our schools, our universities and our government,” Lazer said.

The scientist said people need to be more aggressive in their approach to preventing the spread of COVID-19 because daily data is behind and information lags.

“Imagine if you were driving a car and you hit the brakes, like two weeks later you start to slow down,” Lazer said.

Lazer said he is optimistic about a vaccine but believes society needs to act collectively to get the virus handled for the time being.

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