Is the White House's 240,000 virus death toll estimate accurate? Trump advisers and disease experts voice doubt about the terrifying projection

Daily Mail ^ | 04/03/2020 | Rachel Sharp

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Donald Trump's top advisors have expressed doubts about the accuracy of the White House's apocalyptic forecast that 240,000 Americans will die from the coronavirus pandemic, sources have said.

As the US death reached 6,056 Thursday and the nation's healthcare system buckles under the crisis, administration officials said the stark forecasts could have been a tactic to warn the president he needs to act now.

The White House made the shock prediction Tuesday that there will be between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths in the US if the nation continues on its trajectory and current social distancing guidelines are maintained.

Trump said the estimates were based on data 'that has been, I think, brilliantly put together.'

The figures place the US on track for a historic disaster, with more Americans dying from the pandemic than the Vietnam War.

However, some of the president's top advisors are baffled by the figures which have led to fierce debates within the Trump administration, according to three anonymous White House officials.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the US's top medical expert on the pandemic and a member of President Trump's coronavirus task force, cast doubt on the figures during a task force meeting this week, they told The Washington Post.

'I've looked at all the models. I've spent a lot of time on the models. They don't tell you anything,' Fauci said.

'You can't really rely upon models.'

The White House has kept quiet over the numbers, even as far as refusing to explain how they were calculated or providing the underlying data behind the shock statistics.

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Good list

[Kickaha]

Thanks. I’m not minimizing the seriesness of this virus but I think the Cloward-Piven devotees are seeing this as their last, or latest, best chance to bring down the United States.

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yep...started w PNG....they have lots of chinese...and almost no infections......because most everyone has had a course of worm killer....for red river eye...anyway....is imagine twitter removed her tweet...it was only there for an hour...? ivermectin.....could Save U.S.