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Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)
Mon May 4, 2020, 11:47 AM May 2020

The Trump administration projects about 3,000 daily deaths by early June.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/us/coronavirus-updates.html#link-7b42d0f5

As President Trump presses for states to reopen their economies, his administration is privately projecting a steady rise in the number of cases and deaths from coronavirus over the next several weeks, reaching about 3,000 daily deaths on June 1, according to an internal document obtained by The New York Times, nearly double from the current level of about 1,750.

The projections, based on modeling by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and pulled together in chart form by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, forecast about 200,000 new cases each day by the end of the month, up from about 25,000 cases now.

The numbers underscore a sobering reality: While the United States has been hunkered down for the past seven weeks, not much has changed. And the reopening to the economy will make matters worse.

“There remains a large number of counties whose burden continues to grow,” the C.D.C. warned.

The projections confirm the primary fear of public health experts: that a reopening of the economy will put the nation right back where it was in mid-March, when cases were rising so rapidly in some parts of the country that patients were dying on gurneys in hospital hallways with cases rising so rapidly that the health care system is overloaded.

“While mitigation didn’t fail, I think it’s fair to say that it didn’t work as well as we expected” Scott Gottlieb, Mr. Trump’s former commissioner of food and drugs, said Sunday on the CBS program Face the Nation. “We expected that we would start seeing more significant declines in new cases and deaths around the nation at this point. And we’re just not seeing that.”

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The Trump administration projects about 3,000 daily deaths by early June. (Original Post) Dennis Donovan May 2020 OP
FFS.😭 dewsgirl May 2020 #1
Dumb mother fuckers never shut down. onecaliberal May 2020 #2
I know it will vary and eventually hopefully go down Hav May 2020 #3
they have done nothing to prepare for or contain this epidemic soryang May 2020 #4
+1 Newest Reality May 2020 #7
3,000 dead per day-90,000 dead per month. LisaL May 2020 #5
Yea, but a man has to get a haircut..... Chainfire May 2020 #9
I truly hate these motherf***ers . . . Iliyah May 2020 #6
Hey what's another 60,000 dead versus getting a haircut and going bowling? SoonerPride May 2020 #8
FOX and his fans don't care Johnny2X2X May 2020 #10
200,000/day!?? gristy May 2020 #11
That's up 7-8 fold higher than now!! Roland99 May 2020 #14
Okay, this is insane. Mike 03 May 2020 #12
Waffle House virus spreads. kairos12 May 2020 #13
lol ancianita May 2020 #16
Winning Baby!!!! Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2020 #15

Hav

(5,969 posts)
3. I know it will vary and eventually hopefully go down
Mon May 4, 2020, 11:56 AM
May 2020

but just for the sake of it, that's 90000 per month.
200000 new cases each day...these are now expected losses. This is what they meant when they said the cure cannot be worse than the disease.
They just want to get through with it because the attempts so far to contain it weren't succesful enough. Incredible logic. I wonder how this won't overwhelm the healthcare system.

soryang

(3,299 posts)
4. they have done nothing to prepare for or contain this epidemic
Mon May 4, 2020, 11:58 AM
May 2020

there is a certain point where the gross negligence theory no longer applies and one must suspect that this is intentional. At a minimum it reflects a willful and wanton disregard for human life.

Chainfire

(17,538 posts)
9. Yea, but a man has to get a haircut.....
Mon May 4, 2020, 12:15 PM
May 2020

What in the world are the hospitals going to do? How long can medical professionals work around the clock without breaking down? Perhaps the The Trump government will expect us to just stay at home and recover or quietly die. It will be considered the patriotic thing to do.

You can bet that whatever numbers the government is giving us is going to be low-balling. It is probably just a matter of time before they start classifying the numbers. That is what totalitarian governments do.

I think that we all know, that regardless of how bad the toll gets, they will not shut down businesses again, they will not return to a system that was, at least partially working, so we are screwed, blued and tattooed.

Make America Great Again, indeed.




SoonerPride

(12,286 posts)
8. Hey what's another 60,000 dead versus getting a haircut and going bowling?
Mon May 4, 2020, 12:06 PM
May 2020

Because really, who cares about all those dead people? Right?

Not trump.

Not republicans.

Clearly?

Johnny2X2X

(19,066 posts)
10. FOX and his fans don't care
Mon May 4, 2020, 12:22 PM
May 2020

They don't care that he said we were "trending to zero." They don'y care that he said it's like the flu. They don't care that he eventually settled on 60,000 deaths as the mark for tremendous success. And now they won't care when we blow through 100K which is his most recent bar.

He's gotten 40% of Americans to accept that thousands of Americans will die daily for his mistakes.

gristy

(10,667 posts)
11. 200,000/day!??
Mon May 4, 2020, 12:29 PM
May 2020
The projections, based on modeling by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and pulled together in chart form by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, forecast about 200,000 new cases each day by the end of the month, up from about 25,000 cases now.


Our "leadership" certainly knows this too, and yet they are "opening up" the economy. Sweden, here we come...
https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200501/sweden-sticks-with-controversial-covid19-approach
As of the end of April, Sweden had reported more than 21,500 confirmed infections and 2,600 deaths, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. That amounts to about 12% of diagnosed people dying of the disease. Among its neighbors, just 210 people have died in Norway -- less than 3% of those diagnosed; 218, or about 4%, in Finland; and 460, or about 5%, in Denmark.

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
12. Okay, this is insane.
Mon May 4, 2020, 12:39 PM
May 2020

We've moved from "inactivity and poor judgment on the part of the Trump administration" to negligent and reckless mass homicide, or maybe worse: premeditated mass murder.

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