As states push ahead with reopening, CDC warns coronavirus cases and deaths are set to soar
As nearly half of U.S. states begin to ease restrictions that were put in place to slow the spread of the coronavirus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is quietly projecting a stark rise in the number of new cases of the virus and deaths from it over the next month.
Modeling from the CDC, incorporated into a chart prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and circulated within the administration, was obtained by the New York Times. It projects 200,000 new daily cases of the coronavirus by the end of May and 3,000 daily deaths in the U.S. At present, approximately 25,000 new cases are reported each day, with roughly 1,750 deaths.
Without disputing the accuracy of the modeling used by the CDC, the White House quickly distanced itself from the projections.
This data is not reflective of any of the modeling done by the task force or data that the task force has analyzed, White House deputy press secretary Judd Deere said in a Monday statement. The presidents phased guidelines to open up America again are a scientific-driven approach that the top health and infectious disease experts in the federal government agreed with.
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