Without social distancing, one model predicts the coronavirus could have killed 40,000,000

Without implementing strategies like lockdowns to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus, there would have been 7 billion infections and 40 million deaths in 2020 alone, according to a report published Thursday from researchers at the Imperial College of London.

"The world faces a severe and acute public health emergency due to the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic," the authors wrote. "How individual countries respond in the coming weeks will be critical in influencing the trajectory of national epidemics."

The report, according to co-author Charles Whittaker, is meant to project the impact of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. The projections are not an inevitability, he said.

"The results we present in this paper are not predictions of what will [necessarily] happen," Whittaker told BBC NewsHour on Friday morning. "Instead, what we're trying to do is illustrate the magnitude of the problem and the benefits of acting quickly."

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Will may still if Trump has his way.