Leaked CDC report projects 200,000 infections per day by June 1
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By John Wojcik and C.J. Atkins

The Trump administration, despite urging a re-opening of the economy, is sitting on its own projections that the daily death toll from COVID-19 will nearly double in the next four weeks. The report is in the form of an internal CDC document procured by a number of newspapers, including the "New York Times" and the "Washington Post".

The leaked CDC document forecasts that new coronavirus cases will surge to 200,000 per day by June 1, with a daily death toll rising along with it to 3,000. The number of new cases at this time is about 25,000 per day while the daily death count is now around 1,750 per day.

The new projections in the leaked document are based on modeling compiled by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which President Trump charged with overseeing the coronavirus response efforts.

It is significant that Trump, who just increased his death predictions from 65,000 to 100,000 did not try to claim that the document was wrong in any way or that it did not exist. All his administration is saying so far is that the document has not been presented to the White House coronavirus task force and that it has not gone through any interagency vetting.

"This data is not reflective of any of the modeling done by the task force or data that the task force has analyzed," said White House spokesman Judd Deere....

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