Donald Trump Estimates U.S Coronavirus Death Toll To Reach 100k
Despite some state’s reopening, the President on Sunday estimated that the Coronavirus death toll in the U.S could reach 100,000, which is double his previous predictions. As of now, it had surpassed 67,000.
Despite this, President Trump said that parks, beaches, and some businesses should begin reopening now and schools should resume as normal and in-person by this fall.
“We’re going to lose anywhere from 75, 80 to 100,000 people,” Trump said in a digital “town hall” meeting hosted by Fox News. “That’s a horrible thing. We shouldn’t lose one person over this.” But he credited himself with preventing the toll from being worse. “If we didn’t do it, the minimum we would have lost was a million two, a million four, a million five, that’s the minimum. We would have lost probably higher, it’s possible higher than 2.2” million.
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As of now, the death toll has passed those of Americans who died in the Vietnam war. Dr. Deborah Birx, who is a part of the Coronavirus task force, echoed Trump’s predictions,
“Our projections have always been between 100-240,000 American lives lost and that’s with full mitigation and us learning from each other of how to social distance.”