Best to aim high. It wasn't long ago that Trump was claiming that shutting off airflow from China had done the trick, and that we were following 15 cases and their contacts. Nothing against Trump, hope has its place and he's been fed a lot of misinformation, but over-estimating now is better than falling way behind the curve, like we did then.
Agreed. And I wonder if moving the social distancing date to April 30 gives them that more flexibility with the actual numbers that do come in in the next week and a half to two weeks. Because if they turn out by that time to be nowhere near the numbers predicted in this report and there may be even a declining trend in cases and deaths, that in turn could lead to restrictions being lifted that bit before April 30. However, something different might still take place (as opposed to my wishful thinking, lol).
Here in Snohomish and Eastern King County Washington where this thing first was discovered in the US and found a vulnerable population at a local nursing home... we have over half a million Chinese people many who visit home frequently. Over ten thousand made it back after the travel ban by diverting to Vancouver International a three hour drive from SeaTac. The Canadians were more than happy to help people keep flowing into our country without any type of health screening.
Agree 100%