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given the cast of characters in this one, you just knew it had to be fake!

4 May: Guardian: US daily coronavirus deaths reportedly projected to double to 3,000 by June
New York Times says it has obtained document that suggests administration expects daily death toll to rise throughout May
by Martin Pengelly
As Donald Trump proclaimed success in America’s fight against the coronavirus and continued to push for the US economy to reopen, it was reported (NYT LINK) on Monday that internal projections show the administration is expecting 3,000 deaths a day by 1 June...

The New York Times said it had obtained an “internal document” containing projections “based on modeling by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and pulled together in chart form by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema)”.
CDC and Fema “forecast about 200,000 new cases each day by the end of the month, up from about 25,000 cases now”, the paper said.

The Times report followed a Washington Post (WaPo LINK) report on Saturday that said the Trump White House had followed a model for economic recovery written by Kevin Hassett, an adviser “with no background in infectious diseases”...

The White House attempted to pour cold water on the New York Times story.
In a statement, a spokesman, Judd Deere, said: “This is not a White House document, nor has it been presented to the coronavirus taskforce or gone through inter-agency vetting.
“This data is not reflective of any of the modeling done by the taskforce or data that the taskforce has analyzed.”...

Trump, who is heavily dependent on economic recovery for his hopes of re-election in November, spoke in favor of reopening measures at a Fox News town hall at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on Sunday evening...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/04/coronavirus-daily-us-deaths-models-trump-report