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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/us/coronavirus-deaths-estimate.html
The Worst-Case Estimate for U.S. Coronavirus Deaths
New York Times ^ | March 13, 2020 | Sheri Fink
Posted on 03/13/2020 7:15:22 AM PDT by daniel1212

Officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and epidemic experts from universities around the world conferred last month... Between 160 million and 214 million people in the U.S. could be infected over the course of the epidemic, according to one projection. That could last months or even over a year, with infections concentrated in shorter periods, staggered across time in different communities, experts said. As many as 200,000 to 1.7 million people could die.

And, the calculations based on the C.D.C.’s scenarios suggested, 2.4 million to 21 million people in the U.S. could require hospitalization, potentially crushing the nation’s medical system, which has only about 925,000 staffed hospital beds. Fewer than a tenth of those are for people who are critically ill.

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Highly exaggerated! I think the low end estImate is always more realistic - and a more probable outcome.

There’s no need to panic.

Remember this is the same NY Times that are calling this the Trump virus.

So put things in perspective.

The CDC is worthless!

They just come up with all sorts of scenarios to cover their butts.

The numbers do not indicate what the FAKE STREAM NEWS IS CLAIMING.

It’ is TOTAL BULL $HIT to hurt the economy and hurt President Trump’s chances for reelection.

The only thing that is a real threat is the supply chain disruption.

Officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and epidemic experts from universities around the world conferred last month... Between 160 million and 214 million people in the U.S. could be infected over the course of the epidemic, according to one projection. That could last months or even over a year, with infections concentrated in shorter periods, staggered across time in different communities, experts said. As many as 200,000 to 1.7 million people could die

So China (population 1.4 billion) managed to contain total infections at less than 100,000. South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore have all managed to contain infections at very low levels relative to their populations and somehow the US(popultion 330 million) ends up with a massive 214 million infections?
Yeah right!