One of President Donald Trump’s top medical advisers slashed projections for U.S. coronavirus deaths on Thursday, saying that about 60,000 people may die -- almost half as many as the White House estimated a week ago.
The falling projection, the result of aggressive social distancing behaviors Americans adopted to curb the spread of the virus, may accelerate Trump’s effort to develop a plan to urge Americans to leave their homes and return to work next month.
Anthony Fauci
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“The real data are telling us it is highly likely we are having a definite positive effect by the mitigation things that we’re ...
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