As many as 200k-1.2m
How few are possible?
That range is so large as to render it meaningless in any practical sense.
“How few are possible?”
They don’t want to report that.
Sorry, but this “Worst Case” isn’t even close to right.
If 20 Million Americans get this disease in a short timeframe, and 10-15% require hospitalization thats 2- 3 Million, and if most of those need ventilators/respirators, only about 100k of them will get them, because thats the rough count of how many there are total in the US...
So, if you had a quick and rapid explosion of 20 Million cases in a brief time frame, expect death counts in the 2 Million+ range.