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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAs States Move to Reopen, Trump Administration Privately Predicts Deaths Will Rise
The Trump administration projects about 3,000 daily deaths by early June.
As President Trump presses for states to reopen their economies, his administration is privately projecting a steady rise in the number of coronavirus cases and deaths over the next several weeks. The daily death toll will reach about 3,000 on June 1, according to an internal document obtained by The New York Times, nearly double the current number of about 1,750.
The projections, based on government modeling 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 a day currently.
The numbers underscore a sobering reality: While the United States has been hunkered down for the past seven weeks, significant risks remain. And reopening the economy will make matters worse.
There remains a large number of counties whose burden continues to grow, the Centers for Disease Control warned.
Internal Document: https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/6926-mayhhsbriefing/af7319f4a55fd0ce5dc9/optimized/full.pdf#page=1
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/us/coronavirus-live-updates.html
Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)I wonder how bad the actual number will end up being.
Wait a second, 200,000 new cases per day? Thats 8x the current number infected daily. That mean two weeks after that number might be reached that we could have 8x the number of reported deaths were seeing.
So, 6 weeks from now we could see 14,000 deaths per day!?!?!
Laelth
(32,017 posts)That number cant be right. I suspect a typo.
-Laelth