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Most Coronavirus Deaths in US Projected to Occur in Next Few Weeks

Steve Herman

   WHITE HOUSE - The United States should be prepared to endure 100,000 to
   240,000 deaths from the #COVID-19 coronavirus over the next two
   monthsevenif Americans continue to keep their distance from each other.

   The peak number of deaths will come over the next two to three weeks,
   according to the White House coronavirus task force.

   "Our country is in the midst of a great national trial unlike any we
   have faced before," saidU.S.President Donald Trump as the White House
   on Tuesday formallyintroduced itsextended30-daysocial-distancing
   guidelines based on statistical models.

   "This is going to be one of the roughest two or three weeks we've ever
   had in our country," Trump predicted.

   For the most part, thetwo physicians on the podium with the president
   and Vice President Mike Penceadministeredthe bitter medicineto the
   American public.

   "This is a number we need to anticipate, but we don't necessarily have
   to accept it as inevitable," said Dr. AnthonyFauci,the director of the
   National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, of the
   anticipated 100,000-plus fatalities.

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