Just to update -- yesterday, I wrote an article about how the coronavirus is nothing "like the flu," and I said that though the number deaths right now was 112,000, I thought it would go to at least 150,000. I clarified that I am not a scientist, so my word was hardly definitive. But I didn't think I was wrong.
In the evening, a new report came out from the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. This is the group which has provided the White House with its model for predicting cases of COVID-19 -- that is until the White House stopped wanting to present such numbers. The IHME said that its new model was 145,000 deaths by August 4. Okay, yes, I was 5,000 deaths high. But in fairness, their model is only until August 4, a mere two months from now. I was talking about until the end of the year. So...I think unfortunately I'm still on track. And this was back when Trump said, "I'm hearing 74,000." Hey, if I could be that much more accurate than the guy surrounded by all the national institutes of health, God only know what lunatic voices he was hearing. But as I said, they were probably coming out of his rear.
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