Coronavirus death toll will increase to 3,000 per day by June, Trump administration projects
Doing the math at 3,000 people dying per day in the US means over 1 million people will die per year. And let's say at a minimum it will take 2 years to produce enough vaccines, which is a very optimistic number, that means that over 2 million will die.
That's a lot of people.
So, yeah, let's reopen the economy and let 'er rip!
Here's some of the juicy quotes:
Internal Trump administration projections estimate that about 3,000 Americans will die from the coronavirus every day by June 1, according to CDC documents obtained by the New York Times.
The increased estimates come as states have eased restrictions and after a weekend many Americans spent outside at protests or enjoying spring days in the park. Florida, Colorado, Indiana, Nebraska, South Carolina and West Virginia, among others, moved to loosen restrictions in an attempt to revive a sputtering economy and calm restless residents.
But the projections make clear that these reopenings come with fatal risks.
"It's simple logic," CNN's senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen said. "When you tell people, 'Hey, you can go to bars, you can get your nails done, you can go to a restaurant,' those numbers are going to go up."
