| BREAKING NEWS |
The Trump administration is privately projecting daily coronavirus deaths to nearly double by June 1, even as it presses states to reopen. |
| Monday, May 4, 2020 11:42 AM EST |
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 3,000 daily deaths, and 200,000 new cases each day by the end of this month, up from about 25,000 cases now.
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Monday, May 4, 2020
Thinning the herd
New York Times
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 as the health care system grew overloaded.
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