Fauci Predicts There Could Be Over 100,000 Coronavirus Related Deaths
Since the coronavirus burst on the global scene roughly three months ago, there have been many predictions of what the death toll will be. But, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and…
Since the coronavirus burst on the global scene roughly three months ago, there have been many predictions of what the death toll will be.
But, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday that people should not pay too much attention to the worst-case scenario projections of the Coronavirus Outbreak.
“Whenever the models come in, they give a worst-case scenario and a best-case scenario. Generally, the reality is somewhere in the middle,” Fauci said, adding,
“I’ve never seen a model, of the diseases that I’ve dealt with, which the worst-case scenario actually came out, they always overshoot.”
He added, “So when you use numbers like a million, a million and a half, two million, that almost certainly is off the chart. Now, it’s not impossible, but very, very unlikely.”
Watch his comments below:
“Looking at what we’re seeing now, I would say between 100,000 and 200,000 cases … excuse me, deaths, I mean we’re going to have millions of cases,” Fauci said about his projections for the death toll in the United States.
However, he said, “I just don’t think that we really need to make a projection when it’s such a moving target.”
Fauci’s comments come as the latest data from Johns Hopkins University shows there are 136,880 confirmed cases in the U.S., and 2,381 coronavirus related deaths so far.