Research Home > COVID-19 Resources > Preliminary Print Daily Data and Projections on COVID-19 Death Rates by B. Ravikumar and G. Vandenbroucke posted online March 30, 2020 updated April 16, 2020 Note: An On the Economy blog post with additional explanation of this data was published on April 13: Is the U.S. Looking Like Italy? Projections on COVID-19 Death Rates Chart 1 The U.S. population is 327 million. As of March 21, 2020, the U.S. had 327 deaths related to COVID-19.