The White House today announced a best-case prediction of 100,000 to 240,000 coronavirus deaths in the U.S. 'This is the thing that we need to anticipate, but that doesn’t mean that’s what we are going to accept. We want to do much, much better than that”
Medical experts from the White House coronavirus task force on Tuesday delivered a sober, data-driven presentation that characterized a six-figure death toll from the pandemic as the low-end “goal” of the Trump administration’s mitigation efforts.
Asked point-blank what the administration projected the death toll to be, Trump on Tuesday yielded the floor of the White House Briefing Room to his medical experts, Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health and Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator. “If all of the other states and all the other metro areas are able to hold that case number down, then it‘s a very different picture,“ Birx said. “But you have to predict on the data you have, which is heavily skewed to New York and New Jersey.“
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