Coronavirus task force presents a bleak landscape with 100K deaths as best-case scenario

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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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ladevita12 POTUS

What's with the two weeks crap? Does he really expect us to believe that COVID-19 is just going to pack up & 'go home' in two weeks time & we can all go back to normal? How many meds is he on & has anyone ever looked at drug interactions 'cause he's not quite right in the head.

Only a Trump would think of 200K dead Americans as a victory. He’ll probably make it part of his campaign.

I don’t believe a word these people say.They told us it wasn’t airborne. That it couldn’t be transmitted person to person. That it was 34x, then 20x, then 10x & now it’s maybe 4x more deadly than the flu, but when this ends up being a nothing burger, they’ll say it was their work

The greatest trial the U.S. has ever faced is the Trump regime.

Incompetent moron

Thankfully he put Jared on the case weeks ago. I’m sure we’ll all be fine.

As his 3 months of waffling & doing nothing but playing golf & calling the virus a 'democratic hoax' starts to catch up with the nation in thousands of deaths. These deaths are on him. WorstPresidentInHistory

How can it be ‘best case’, but also we hope to ‘do much better’?

No spread, no dead COVIDー19

Don’t care what the WH says. Do a deep dive on the smartest models *and their assumptions*. What do the epidemiologists predict and why? Then bring in what the WH says and juxtapose it please. That’d be compelling,

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