New York Times Says White House Predicting Coronavirus Death Toll Will Reach 3,000 Deaths And 200,000 Infections Per Day By June 1

Funeral Director Omar Rodriguez looks over caskets of bodies at the Gerard J. Neufeld funeral home during the coronavirus outbreak in the borough of Queens, New York, April 26, 2020. REUTERS/Bryan R Smith

New York Times: Coronavirus Live Updates: Trump Administration Models Predict Near Doubling of Daily Death Toll by June

The Trump administration projects about 3,000 daily deaths by early June.

As President Trump presses for states to reopen their economies, his administration is privately projecting a steady rise in the number of cases and deaths from coronavirus over the next several weeks, reaching about 3,000 daily deaths on June 1, according to an internal document obtained by The New York Times, nearly double from the current level of about 1,750.

The projections, based on modeling by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and pulled together in chart form by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, forecast about 200,000 new cases each day by the end of the month, up from about 25,000 cases now.

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