COVID-19 peak will likely hit US in mid-January: Experts

Despite a vaccine authorization on the horizon, the U.S. is poised to still surge in cases and deaths, likely peaking in mid-January.
That’s according to the University of Washington’s Institution for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), which has been providing projections based on current behaviors and factors, since the start of the pandemic.
Dr. Ali Mokdad, a professor of global health at IHME and a former senior official at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told Yahoo…