LIVE: Members of the Coronavirus Task Force Hold a Press Briefing

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[bryan999]

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Members of the Coronavirus Task Force Hold a Press Briefing

[McGruff]

We watched some during dinner and I was impressed with how President trump handled the gotcha question from the media. He was on his game today.

Also I was glad to see him make those medical experts get up there and explain their gloom and doom models. Make them get up there every day.

[moehoward]

“ 1.5M to 2.2M ”

And It was Hillary’s to lose......

[John W]

How did he close, missed it?

[nutmeg]

LOL! 😆

[moehoward]

I think I know where you are going there

[cowboyusa]

Billions of people would have died if ahe has won, because ahe would have started a Nuclear war with Russia.

[moehoward]

“ The press was gobsmacked.”

Amazing! Complete silence!

[nutmeg]

Can’t wait to see Trump’s “close”.... We’re watching this presser a bit delayed.

[BradyLS]

I was indeed glad for that as well.

When I was in school we had to “show our work.” I think the modelers should show theirs, too.

[dfwgator]

When I was in school we had to “show our work.” I think the modelers should show theirs, too.

[timestax]

right now it seems to me that those two doctors are the co-president of the United States and not him. He is relying on they were fake data and fake models too much.

That's right!

[Cboldt]

-- Wish he would have put the doctors at the mic to explain why they said no to reopenings of states in best shape earlier than those in poor shape. --

That'll all be coming out later, Tuesday or thereabout.

Wise info disclosure approach, I think. Let us digest the April 30 possibility, then get into the what if earlier questions.

Doctors now say 80-180,000 if we stay the course to April 30

Who know what number they would project if lifteed say April 5, then put back in. Or Lifted April 19, etc. All of those models would, today, give higher death range. How much higher? Good questions for the doctors. They know the model, the data, etc. Good to hear them finally talking in ranges.

[Red in Blue PA]

I never really thought of it but now that is something else to worry about!

[yoe]

Chris Wallace is on with another doctor who is NOT on the White House team and who is giving his views which differ some what from those of Dr.s Fauci and Brix....muddying the waters about the virus more. Chris seems to delight is doing muddying. The President can and and does answer questions that cover miles of information...few people have that talent.

[topfile]

So 300,000 masks x 20 NYC hospitals = 6 million mask for 7,500 hospital patients... Got it.

[topfile]

So 300,000 masks x 20 NYC hospitals = 6 million mask for 7,500 hospital patients... Got it.

[yoe]

Dr, Fauci was exuberant over what he called Ms. Clinton’s charting a new path in global health. Dr. Fauci is as cheerful and optimistic as is President Trump. They do love their country and make the rest of us unashamedly proud!

[BradyLS]

Good point. Maybe Pence has an android double.

Seriously, though, I wonder if the Secret Service notices, too.

[ican'tbelieveit]

I think the warmer dry regions are seeing fewer cases. NM doesn’t seem to have many. AZ is lower than other states.

Here in CO, tourists brought it in. Then it hit some rest homes.

[kabar]

“ 80,000 to 180,000” That low number is enough to scare the hell out of everybody.

True, but these are models based on certain assumptions. What would happen to those numbers if we develop a therapeutic to combat the virus? There are clinical trials going on now that could be a game changer. And more data will refine the models.

To put this in perspective, we lost 61,000 in a bad flu season.