Morning Jolt: Whichever Model You Use, This Virus Is Going to Kill a Lot of People

Happy Cinco de Mayo. When this thing is all over, we need to have a two-week festival of all the holidays we've been forced to celebrate under limited circumstances. On the menu today: some blunt talk about death projections, why even fatality rates that seem really low will still add up to many deaths before herd immunity is reached, and why the American media shouldn't trust Russian boasts on the coronavirus or any other topic.

The Death Projections Are Not Promising

The big story this morning is a study by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, used in a draft government report, that projects the United States will have 200,000 cases of coronavirus infection per day by June 1, "a staggering jump that would be accompanied by more than 3,000 deaths each day." The White House and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention insisted it was a draft report and not officially endorsed, even though the report ...

WITH JIM GERAGHTY May 05 2020 WITH JIM GERAGHTY May 05 2020 Whichever Model You Use, This Virus Is Going to Kill a Lot of People Happy Cinco de Mayo. When this thing is all over, we need to have a two-week festival of all the holidays we've been forced to celebrate under limited circumstances. On the menu today: some blunt talk about death projections, why even fatality rates that seem really low will still add up to many deaths before herd immunity is reached, and why the American media shouldn't trust Russian boasts on the coronavirus or any other topic. The Death Projections Are Not Promising The big story this morning is a study by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, used in a draft government report, that projects the United States will have 200,000 cases of coronavirus infection per day by June 1, "a staggering jump that would be accompanied by more than 3,000 deaths each day." The White House and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention insisted it was a draft report and not officially endorsed, even though the report ...   READ MORE

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