Morgan Stanley Assumes 155,000 Q1 U.S. COVID-19 Deaths in Earnings Forecast

March 29, 2022 by Allison Bell

Morgan Stanley securities analysts are assuming that the current quarter has been another terrible period for COVID-19 mortality in the United States.

If that prediction is correct, the U.S. pandemic death total will be down from about 192,000 in the first quarter of 2021, but up from 129,000 in the fourth quarter of 2021, and up from about 120,000 in the third quarter of 2021.

The analysts based COVID-19 death figures on data compiled by Refinitiv.

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Originally Posted at ThinkAdvisor on March 25, 2022 by Allison Bell.