Other inaccurate predictions made by Levitt during the COVID-19 pandemic were that Israel would suffer no more than 10 COVID-19 deaths and his belief on July 25, 2020 that COVID-19 in the United States would be over "in 4 weeks with total reported deaths below 170,000". , there were more than 615,000 reported deaths in the United States and more than 6,400 reported fatalities in Israel. About Israel, Levitt clarified that "The problem was that I should have said excess deaths", counting only those who were not at the end of their lives, and that he made a mistake not emphasizing background death rates. As late as February 2021, Levitt claimed the infection fatality rate was as low as 0.06% in Sweden, even as 0.12% of the population had already died of COVID-19.