President Trump and his Coronavirus Task Force presented some frightening numbers during their March 31 White House briefing. Based on now 2-week-old data and models, as many as 100,000 Americans at the models' low end, to 2.2 million at their high end, could die from the fast-spreading virus, they said.
However, the President, Vice President Pence, and Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx hastened to add, those high-end numbers are based on computer models.And they are "unlikely" if Americans keep doing what they are doing now to contain, mitigate and treat the virus. Although that worst-case scenario "is possible," it is "unlikely if we do the kinds of things that we're essentially outlining right now."
