WASHINGTON
The doctor leading the White House’s novel coronavirus response team said Monday she is expecting as many as 200,000 coronavirus cases if the U.S. response to the outbreak is done “almost perfectly.”
“If we do things together well, almost perfectly, we could get in the range of 100,000-200,000 fatalities,” Dr. Deborah Birx said while speaking on the Today morning television show. “We don’t even want to see that.”
The warning comes one day after U.S. President Donald Trump extended social distancing guidelines for an additional 30 days running until the end of April in an effort to rein in
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