Experts and Trump’s advisers doubt White House’s 240,000 coronavirus deaths estimate

4/3/20
 
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from The Washington Post,
4/2/20:

Inside the White House’s effort to create a projected death toll.

Leading disease forecasters, whose research the White House used to conclude 100,000 to 240,000 people will die nationwide from the coronavirus, were mystified when they saw the administration’s projection this week.

The experts said they don’t challenge the numbers’ validity but that they don’t know how the White House arrived at them.

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