US President Donald Trump said during Monday’s White House news briefing that 50,000 to 60,000 people in the US are expected to die from coronavirus — far fewer than earlier projections made by the administration.
“Now we’re going toward 50 — I’m hearing, or 60,000 people. One is too many. I always say it. One is too many, but we’re going toward 50 or 60,000 people. That’s at the lower — as you know the lower (end of the projections) was supposed to be 100,000 people,” he said.
“If we didn’t do what we did, we would have had, I think, a million people, maybe 2 million people, maybe more than that (dead),” he added.
Late last month, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, told CNN’s “State of the Union” that based on models, 100,000 Americans or more could die from the virus.
At least 42,138 people have died in the US from coronavirus, according to Johns Hopkins University.