New data suggest U.S. coronavirus deaths may be lower than feared
The masks are among the most coveted supplies needed in hospitals and medical facilities that are treating people infected with the coronavirus amid a nationwide shortage of personal protective equipment for healthcare workers.
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation — one of the main sources the White House used to inform its numbers — includes data from Wuhan, China, where the government imposed a strict lockdown, isolated infected people from their families and employed thousands of workers to identify and track infected people to quarantine them and monitor their contacts.
“We don’t do this with hurricane predictions; we don’t even do this with Netflix movie predictions,” said Dylan George, vice president of the tech investment firm In-Q-Tel, who served as a senior White House advisor on biological threats under President Obama. , urging Americans to wash hands and stay home to emulate the success of South Korea in combating the spread of the virus.But botched U.S. testing and a slow and uneven response by the Trump administration had by then already rendered the South Korean model impossible.
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