Posted on 04/09/2020 10:07:24 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Anthony Fauci, a leading member of the Trump administration's coronavirus task force, said Thursday he thinks the U.S. death toll from the virus could be much lower than the 100,000 to 200,000 first estimated by the White House.
Fauci said on NBC's "Today" show that given widespread mitigation efforts the death toll will likely be closer to 60,000 as the U.S. now has more data about the growth and spread of the virus throughout the country.
"I believe we are going to see a downturn in that, and it looks more like the 60,000 [range] than the 100,000 to 200,000," Fauci said.
Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, credited social distancing practices being implemented across the country for helping reduce the spread of the virus and in turn help lower models for the estimated number of deaths.
"I think the American public have done a really terrific job just buckling down and doing those physical separations and adhering to those guidelines ... models are really only as good as the assumptions that you put into the model," he said.
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Watch for that to be halved again in a few days.
And then again....
Trying to decide who he reminds me more of.
Emily Litella, or the minor Star Trek character
Doctor Noonien “Often Wrong” Soong.
paging the fearmongers...paging the fearmongers....
So it’s just 2017 all over again.
Doofus concedes that the death toll will be less than the flu a year ago.
Although without the shutdown, and particularly without hydroxychloroquine it might have been worse.
And when it does, watch for FauXi to come out and say "I tried to tell the President not to shut down the economy and plunge us all into a depression, but he wouldn't listen."
He’s a liar. Social distancing was already figured into the model he was using.
In 2003, France recorded 14,802 fatalities which were caused by a heat wave that occurred in August of that year.
At that time, the population of France was 61 million, which was about one-sixth the current population of the United States.
OMG, hair on fire, we’re all gonna die.
Hey, great news, all the crazy stuff we had you do, it worked! We’re gonna make it.
They’ve already played the script in Ohio. Uber sincere Dr. Acton was so happy that the sheep did what need to be done, and she admonished the sheep to keep doing it, or the boogey man would be back.
Not quite - when Birx (scarf lady) told us about how much can be accomplished with behavior modification, during last nights Task Force briefing, she let slip the true danger from all the panic hoopla - many evil entities are taking notes on ways to make us more obedient to their whims.
Jerk...
This guy couldn’t find a bagel in Brooklyn.
And it’s likely that the real death toll may be well under 60,000.
So......flu.
“models are really only as good as the assumptions that you put into the model”
Except when they are climate models, then they are the gospel and shall not be questioned!
Tender sensibilities?
“””””So......flu.”””””””””””
The coronavirus is not a flu.
So........not the flu.
As they continue to blame “The White House” for the earlier inflated numbers.
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