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After coronavirus deaths in the United States surpassed 18,000, researchers are saying the number of daily reported deaths could peak on Friday.The latest version of an influential model tracking the coronavirus pandemic estimates the US will see peak daily death numbers on Friday instead of Sunday. The peak use of resources — like hospital beds and ventilators — will be on or around Saturday as suggested earlier this week, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington in Seattle.

But the modeling estimates more people will die from coronavirus than previously predicted.Coronavirus pandemic changes way of lifeOn Wednesday, the IHME estimated that 60,415 in the US would die of coronavirus by August, assuming social distancing policies continue through May. On Friday, that estimate increased to 61,500.At least 18,316 people have died of coronavirus in the US and more than 102,000 worldwide, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx said health officials seeing a leveling of the curve for the first time since the pandemic hit the country but urged Americans to continue mitigation efforts.”So it’s really about the encouraging signs that we see, but as encouraging as they are, we have not reached the peak, and so every day we need to continue to do what we did yesterday, and the week before, and the week before that,

” Birx said at a White House news conference on Friday.There have been more than 491,300 total confirmed cases nationwide and 172,000 are in New York state — more cases than any country in the world. Worldwide, there are 1.68 million confirmed cases, according to Johns Hopkins.