U.S. could return to ‘2,000 deaths a day’ it suffered at peak of coronavirus outbreak

The U.S. surpassed 150,000 deaths from the coronavirus on Wednesday, as the country’s death rate continued a steady climb that began in early July.

The crisis could get far worse in the coming months, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates told Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer in a recent interview, predicting that the fall could bring daily death tolls not seen since the height of the U.S. outbreak.

“Our peak death rate was well over 2,000 a day,” says Gates, co-founder of…