Birx says deaths will be 'dramatically decreased' by end of May, criticizes media coverage as 'very

[Danmel]

Source: Washington Post

Deborah Birx, the response coordinator for the White House’s coronavirus task force, said on Saturday night that she expects the number of coronavirus deaths in the United States to go way down by the end of next month.

“We believe that both hospitalizations, the ICU need and frankly, the number of people who have succumbed to this disease, will be dramatically decreased by the end of May,” she said in an interview with Fox News host Jesse Watters.

Birx, one of the nation’s leading infectious disease experts, said that even though she believes deaths and hospitalizations will decrease, that might not be the situation when it comes to coronavirus cases. She said she thinks increased testing to the general public would find additional cases in people who are either asymptomatic or show very mild symptoms.

Birx also criticized the media coverage in the United States during the pandemic, specifically taking aim at how outlets have framed headlines in their coverage of the public health crisis.

“I think the media is very slicey and dicey about how they put sentences together in order to create headlines,” said Birx, who was pictured above a chyron that read, “Birx: The media isn’t always fair.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/04/26/coronavirus-latest-news/#link-RGUFTAEDVFDS7MVS5PVAAHDG4U

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She had won the battle against herself. She loved big brother.

[Jamastiene]

1. Somebody needs to check the water supply in D.C.

Something is wrong with our government. A whole lot of something is wrong.

[Lock him up.]

82. Call her Baghdad Birx...

SAD (but true).

[DENVERPOPS]

94. How about

Slicey Dicey Birx...........

I wonder what changed in her life that flipped her from a noted authority to Trump's puppet????????

[KG]

2. yeah. so, no need to get the feels for ms birx. she's part of the idiocracy

[Chipper Chat]

3. Trump has her on a tight leash.

Makes her beg for doggie treats.

[Chipper Chat]

5. The fact that she only goes on FoxNews tells you

All you need to know . She drinks koolaid.

[SergeStorms]

47. Or....

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she's forced, pretty much at gunpoint, to talk to only FOX Noise. Trump loves to intimidate women, and if she's not the type who can handle a demented pig like Trump, she might be getting trod upon by the Orange Idiot. Yes, she could resign in disgust, but some people just don't have the guts to make waves. I'm really not sure what her character is like, whether she's one who flees, or one who fights. It would appear to me to be the former.

[Chipper Chat]

77. Exactly

[erronis]

58. Reason for those scarves? Choke marks on her neck.

Could be from that leash or could be from a garotte.

Ask Jeffrey what was used on him.

[ashredux]

4. Actually...this is sad. Everything Trump touches dies....

Her integrity is the victim

[calimary]

64. Yep. She's thoroughly compromised now.

She’ll always have that cheap “trump gold tone” tarnish on her reputation. You walked into the chipper shredder, girlfriend. Voluntarily. Getting paid for it, too, I’m sure. And that high-profile exposure and purported White House credential on your resume.

And you are ruined, girlfriend. Fucked. Destroyed. You climbed into bed with him. And he fucked you. Badly. You’ll carry that blot on your previously good name and formerly sterling reputation for the rest of your life. All your pathetic mewling and humiliating excuse-making and tap-dancing (a former coworker of mine used to call it “dick-dancing”) and ridiculous rationalization as you flail so pitifully trying to happy-talk around what your “boss-from-Hell” just verbally mangled and colossally screwed up - and what did it gain you?

You’re screwed, too. And so is your reputation. That’s what it gained you. A whole lot of NOTHING.

[mahannah]

6. Is "slicey and dicey" a medical term?

[littlemissmartypants]

30. It might be clanging...

Clang associations are groupings of words, usually rhyming words, that are based on similar-sounding sounds, even though the words themselves don't have any logical reason to be grouped together.1 A person who is speaking this way may be showing signs of psychosis in bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.

https://www.verywellmind.com/clang-associations-380072

[Igel]

78. Or it's just referring to a fairly common expression that's been around for decades.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slice%20and%20dice


Note that "slice" and "dice" both have a shared semantic meaning: To cut something into smaller pieces. You can slice an onion, you can dice an onion. (In fact, when I dice tomatoes, onions, jicama, or carrots I typically first slice them.)

If somebody thinks food prep is using a phone app to order something by DoorDash, I can see how the phrase and its meanings would be opaque.

I suspect it was originally "slice or dice"--as in the phrase "no matter how you slice or dice it, ..." (With the humorous '70s disco-based "no matter how you dance, no matter how you prance" doggerel that used to show up on men's bathroom walls having the same sort of semantic "alliteration", if I can use an analogy.)

[littlemissmartypants]

91. Wouldn't it be something if it was both? nt

[sheilahi]

33. hopey changey

Slicey Dicey. Where'd she go? The Sarah Palin school of grammar?

[DENVERPOPS]

42. Perfect

kind of woman for Trump....................

She can't do the young and beautiful, or do a silicone rack,

So she has to do something to be useful to the Ye Ol' Pussy Graber"............

She used to be a pretty qualified scientist, but something has pushed her over the edge in the other direction.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

37. DUzy

[gibraltar72]

7. Why can't people put up a happy headline about 2,600 deaths in one day?

Why can't we look at the positive side of selling our medical supplies to our enemies? Why can't we appreciate a pResident that looks at innovative and new ways to help. Yeah she's gonna replace Azar.

[Scarsdale]

9. She should be ashamed.

Her integrity and self respect have been destroyed. Sure, she will get Azar's job, but it will be over once the orange mistake is thrown out of office.The entire administration consists of unqualified arse kissers. Her behavior makes me question just how professional she really is. Can't recognize pure, unadulterated bull crap when she is knee deep in it? Maybe her scarves are too tight, cutting off the oxygen to her brain? Next she will tell us drinking, or ingesting cleaning fluids is the best thing to cure this virus.

[FarPoint]

8. Let's keep this simple....

The USA is not the only country effected by COVID 19.....we squandered out preparation time of 1 month because the COVID 19 Virus was traveling...we had warning...The key here is that other countries, AROUND THE WORLD are effected...many before USA...they are just starting to think about lifting lockdowns...The lockdown guidelines have been WORLD WIDE proving no Media hype...The USA, our protective standards have been sub-standard at best, compliance is even worse...there is not media " slicey dicey" going on here Dr Brix...

Our testing, quarantine, retesting has been a failure over all...especially the testing and the PPE supplies for first line workers...leading the USA to be a cesspool for COVID 19....

The media needs to stop airing the nay sayers and protesters! This sends out awful mix messages and leads to chaos and resulting in DEATH.

[dawg day]

10. End of next month?

Another 50k deaths?

[Stallion]

74. Yeah That's the WTF Point of her Statement

deaths were projected to radically decline by the end of this Month

[pazzyanne]

76. End of the next month?

Has she heard the recent impact of meat packing plants? South Dakota went from one of the states with the lowest COVID-19 impact to one of the highest in less than a week. That's the first one, now being followed by other companies such as Tysons, JBS, Hormel and others. The first plants impacted are pork and poultry, but it now moving to beef processing as well. Ending next month? As we say in Minnesota, "Ya shure, you betcha!"

[Sierra89]

11. Oh Please..

This from the doc who sat idly by, blinking with a blank stare as donnie dumb ass went on and on about uv light and disinfectant.
ANY credibility her ass had flew out the window that very day.

[Lonestarblue]

16. She may be an expert, but she is also another Trump sycophant.

I don’t know the woman personally, but her attempts to always gloss over the realities irritate me. She reminds me far too much of a few women and men from my former corporate life from whom I could never get a straight answer when asking for things like a best case scenario or the worst case scenario. There are times when straight speaking is necessary, and this is one of those times.

[llmart]

51. Sums her up to a tee.

I don't care what letters she may have after her name, when you hitch your star to an imbecile you lose all credibility as far as I'm concerned.

She and her scarves need to take a hike.

[gab13by13]

12. What does Dr. Fauci say?

Unchain him from the basement.

[Maxheader]

13. Well I certainly hope she's right...

And better yet...start going down.. now.

Unfortunately, any of stumpy's minions notions aren't

worth spit...

[ashredux]

14. Ask her about June...second wave coming after this premature "opening "

[oldsoftie]

15. We SHOULD all hope she's right.

GA will be a early test to see if things work or dont

[Bengus81]

21. What's changed to hope that she's right?

This sends a message that tells Governors screw the stay at home, Scarfie says everything will be fine in a mere 35 days. So throw the gates open and let all business resume as usual with no vaccine in sight.

With her spewing BS like that you can bet your arse every State with a Trump humper Governor will end stay at home restrictions and opening all business. This could be ten time worse by summer.

Better stock up on Wuhan Don's miracle cures he trots out on a daily basis.

[oldsoftie]

45. Well, a month ago the death rate was 10x that of the flu. Now its much lower.

We would have known this much sooner if Trumps administration hadnt screwed up testing. We STILL arent getting tested the way we need to be. In every area where there has been large scale testing, it shows a much higher infection rate, which lowers the death rate. Look at the LA County testing. NY testing. Its far more widespread than we thought. If not for Trumps incompetence, we would have known that many weeks ago. This isnt going away; and any vaccine wont be like the polio vaccine. It will be like the flu vaccine. So we need to focus on the high risk people because they are the most vulnerable. 88% of Covid patients in NYC have had underlying conditions. THATS where we need to focus. Thinking we can just keep everyone home on an open-ended schedule is not realistic and people will reach a point where they'll just stop paying attention to it. I've already seen some folks comment that here on DU. If its happening here, its happening much more elsewhere

[USALiberal]

54. What do you mean??? A month ago there was only 268 deaths that day (3/26/20)???

[oldsoftie]

70. 3/11, Dr Fauci:"COVID-19 Mortality Rate 'Ten Times Worse' Than Seasonal Flu"

https://reason.com/2020/03/11/covid-19-mortality-rate-ten-times-worse-than-seasonal-flu-says-dr-anthony-fauci/

[Yeehah]

103. Where you getting your info?

Because it's not close to the truth.

[oldsoftie]

110. I only post factual info. Here are links for every item I mentioned.

LA County infection rate far above what was thought.
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-04-21/la-county-coronavirus-infections-are-up-to-55-times-that-of-reported-cases

NY cases likely above 2 million
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/new-york-virus-deaths-top-15k-cuomo-expected-to-detail-plan-to-fight-nursing-home-outbreaks/2386556/

Almost ALL of patients in NY had underlying conditions
https://time.com/5825485/coronavirus-risk-factors/

Covid 10x more deadly than flu (March; already posted right above your post)
https://reason.com/2020/03/11/covid-19-mortality-rate-ten-times-worse-than-seasonal-flu-says-dr-anthony-fauci/

Getting the flu vaccine doesnt mean you wont still get the flu
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/vaccineeffect.htm

[DeminPennswoods]

112. Thank you

That is the observable evidence as well. Where I live over 2/3rds of the cases are centered around 1 large nursing home facility. With limited current tracking of cases by race/ethnicity, it's hard to know exactly, but there have been no reports of outbreaks centered around apartment buildings even ones catering to seniors or in low income housing.

There's also new evidence supporting your statement that people are going out more and staying home less.

There is also no doubt that Trump/administrations ignoring the warnings and being completely unprepared to do testing created a bigger crisis than it probably needed to be.

[paleotn]

57. Hope is meaningless in the light of actual science.

We know what to do. We've known for decades. And we know what will happen if we don't do it. Whole volumes have been written on the dangers and steps to control the next pandemic. It's been predicted since the 70's. The fact is, we have a hopelessly incompetent crew of jackasses running the show from Washington. Their incompetence has killed 50K Americans and climbing.

And the facts state that GA will be another epicenter by mid-May.

[oldsoftie]

73. Data drives action. Data 2 months ago is totally different than data of today.

Trumps incompetence aside, the current data shows that the death rate IS far lower than we thought. It also shows a spread rate far HIGHER than we thought. We should have know ALL that earlier, but for trumps idiocy we didnt. But the fact also is that we cannot and will not remain semi-shut down until a vaccine is developed. And again, a vaccine for Covid will be much like the flu vaccine; it doesnt mean you wont get it. We're just going to have to realize that the most vulnerable need to be protected by continuing to semi-quarantine. And adopting measures that probably would've been a good idea to be doing anyway.

[Shermann]

17. This will take some creative sharpie-ing of the Johns Hopkins charts nt

[Kaiserguy]

83. Trump will order an end to testing

then just like magic it will all go away. The people that are still dying aren't really dead they are just actors. Just ask Alex Jones Its all fake news is what Trump will say and his base even as they are dying will believe it

[Shermann]

88. Here we go!

[Bengus81]

18. We've had 2300+ new positives in Kansas in 21 days,before we were having just a few

Looking on a map our blocks of Counties keeps filling in. This doesn't automatically mean a run of new deaths but it could. Birx is just a scarf "fashion show" on the Trump show each afternoon and little else.

[duforsure]

19. Birx has lost any credibility she once may of had

By promoting this now. Reporters need to ask her what factual basis was her statement based on. Then ask then with testing less than 1% of this countries population how she could make a statement like that in public. Forcing her to openly lie by trump is incredibly dangerous, and against her oaths she's taken, and maybe her license should be revoked for doing this. She's no doctor if she's lying to please trump now.

[beachbumbob]

20. sure hope so, but reopening stuff too soon will keep this going along as well

[Mike Nelson]

22. I think...

... she's shown her true colors by going on the "very slicey and dicey" Jessie Watters show. Has she any idea how it sounds to go on his show and complain about the Media?

[Maeve]

23. And the second wave? When will that be?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

38. End of May must be the tiny safe window

[Steelrolled]

105. IMHO, no one has a clue.

It is all guesswork.

[NickB79]

24. Deaths will drop in areas that have been hit hard already

New York, for example. The got a taste of this disease close up and the lessons of social distancing will be long lasting. They'll still have deaths, but not like this spring.

But in small town and rural America? It's just getting started there. Their death rates are set to soar, especially as their state's reopen prematurely.

And By this fall, we'll see another wave roll through as cold weather sets in.

[lark]

25. Blah, blah, blabbety blab - that's all her words are worth.

She has zero credibility or professionalism, just another jerkoff selling their soul and America out to a fascist murdering oligarch, and she knows this and is ok with it. She's made her choice, dollars now over any future employment in a science based field and over the deaths of Americans. She is nothing but tarnished goods now

[Laura PourMeADrink]

39. I do agree, but also wonder what the affect of being on

the side of presumably trying to do the right thing for so long, and then having your team being criticized has on someone. It's like a no-win situation. This, of course, presumes she had good motives to begin with. Giving her the benefit of the doubt.

[lark]

40. Yes, she is in an almost impossibe situation, but she put herself there & didn't leave.

She could have told the truth and let the chips fall where they may, but she didn't, she chose to stand by and give tacit cover to his murderousness. She seems to have zero self respect and is getting all she can right now because she has ruined any future she might have out of fascist think tanks.

[Nasruddin]

52. Still dead

Being put in this trial balloon explains a lot:

[link:https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142479761|

There are 54k Covid dead as of this morning, as well as a mostly uncounted number of excess deaths, and more to come in May. They didn't need to have this happen to them. They will all still be dead at the end of May.

As will Dr Birx's reputation - still dead. ETTD.

[GusBob]

26. Slice, dice and show us those protest crowds again media

Make them look huge!

When they are not

[dalton99a]

27. Frankly, she should call them the enemy of the people

because they're treating a great president very badly and very unfairly

[riversedge]

28. she sounds like trump--hitting on the media. boring.

[jaxexpat]

29. Military people are not famous for their love of a free press.

They are, however, accustomed to going where ever they are sent.

[Yeehah]

89. What are you talking about?

Military people swear an oath to defend the Constitution.

I was military and I love a free press.

[jaxexpat]

96. Okay. How does one explain colonel Birx' actions?

Stands beside Trump on Fox news. My personal experience with the modern soldier is that they have bought into the propaganda "Fox news gives America's news". It was blaring on every tv on the base.

[James48]

31. I would love for her prediction to be right!

But I know she is wrong.

Unless this biological weapon has a built in deactivation timer, the number of deaths, including the pace of deaths, it more likely to INCREASE at the end of May, as more states loosen their lockdowns, and people begin to interface and circulate more.

God, I WISH she would be right.

You know how it feels to be smarter than a White House Pandemic Doctor?

[AllyCat]

36. Weapon? That is quite a charge you have leveled.

Are you saying 45 is using this as a weapon against us?

[James48]

106. No

I’m not saying Trump used a bio weapon against us.

I’m saying that the virus is acting just like a biological weapon- that it’s characteristics are very much like a biological weapon, if the Chinese had been working on such a weapon, it would likely have characteristics like this-

1. Extremely contagious

2. Attacks in ways not easily understood- such as the unusual affects on blood coagulation. There is a whole class of chemical weapons that are designed to do a similar thing- “blood agents”, that affect the blood and cause it either to coagulate in the victims veins; or blood agents may interfere with the absorption of oxygen at the cell level, causing the victim to suffocate, even though they are able to breath. Various cyanyde compounds or related chemicals may also cause similar responses.
This virus has had a number of occasions where it’s acted like a blood agent, and that’s incredibly unusual for a virus. That’s why I say- if somebody wanted to make a biological weapon, it might very well look like this.

3. China is one of the few countries with advanced enough science to produce such a thing if they wanted.

4. It’s not fatal to most of those who catch it. It appears that the fatality rate may be lower than initially thought. If it WERE a weapon that was being developed, you wouldn’t want something that killed everything it touched- for obvious reasons. You’d only want it to make people sick, so they all resources would have to go to trying to save them. Just like the school of thought that says- in war, if you kill an enemy, there is one less opponent. But if you severely wound him, it takes four others to carry that man off the battlefield, so aim for a leg or a hip, so there will be five less left in the fight.

At this point- there is absolutely ZERO evidence that the diseases is either man-made, or naturally occurring, but altered in a lab by man. But if it were, the properties of this virus would likely be what it might look like.

[AllyCat]

107. Glad you are recognizing this is not human made.

Thank you.

[Miguelito Loveless]

61. Are you claiming COVID is a bioweapom?

If so, you are on the wrong board.

[catbyte]

32. So what about the people in their 40s & 50s with "mild" symptoms who are dropping dead from strokes?

[Hugin]

34. Unless there's some dramatic breakthrough which hasn't been reported...

Birx is dramatically mistaken.

[AllyCat]

35. That would be great news Doctor! What is your rationale?

[Paladin]

41. Welcome to trump world, scarf lady.

trump's reverse midas touch turns everything around him into shit; no reason why you should be an exception.

[Sloumeau]

43. Birx gets more and more in the tank for Trump every day.

I don't trust her at all.

[disndat]

44. She is replacing

the current Sec'y of Dept. of HHS, according to early reports this morning. This is a bizarre turn of events,
although you can't put anything past Trump.

[Botany]

46. ATTN Dr. Brix we are at 55,000 deaths right now and we will blow past the 60,000 # that Trump ....

.... gave us a few weeks ago as the TOTAL WE WOULD SEE IN AUGUST. World wide over the
next few years we might be in the 10s of millions of deaths.

“Birx: The media isn’t always fair.” We will be at 1,000,000 cases in the United States in a day or so.



United States cases Confirmed Recovered Deaths

959K 108K 54,172

[DeeDeeNY]

68. She's no longer operating in a reality-based world

“He’s been so attentive to the scientific literature and the details and the data,” Birx said. “I think his ability to analyze and integrate data that comes out of his long history in business has really been a real benefit during these discussions about medical issues.”

doctor:https://www.vox.com/2020/3/27/21197074/deborah-birx-praised-trump-scientific-literature-coronavirus

[Botany]

75. I hope she is just saying this crap in order to push for "the common good."

n/t

[bucolic_frolic]

48. You could drive a tractor trailer between "will be" and "expects"

Just to be sure, this sounds like a stretch that will be covered by lies about real numbers. The Trump administration is hoping the public forgets as the issue becomes tiring and passes from the headlines.

This is a total coverup.

[scarletwoman]

49. She's looking at being the replacement for Azar - so she has to please the vulgar talking yam.

WH weighing plans to replace Azar

[SergeStorms]

50. Double standard.

“I think the responsibility that the press has is to ensure that the headlines reflect the science and data that is in their piece itself,” she said.

And president Trump? He has absolutely no responsibility to ensure that the things he tells the American people reflect the science and data that's been accumulated? It's perfectly alright for Trump to tell people to drag their balls (if they have them) across 50 miles of broken glass to maybe prevent the corona virus? To ingest or inoculate themselves with disinfectant?

Either grow a pair, Ms. Birx, or withdraw yourself from Trump's traveling medicine show each day.

[paleotn]

53. No it's not....

We're still adding 30K plus cases per day. Acute cases based on still limited testing. The curves in red states aren't flattening, and yet they're prematurely reopening their economies to business as usual. NY is still struggling to get their cases under control and that's with competent leadership in the governor's chair. It's going to explode in places like GA, TX and Florida. Deaths won't "dramatically decrease" as long as infection rates run unabated. It's not going to suddenly mutate to some more benign form. That doesn't even make sense. Any professional credibility she may have possessed pre-CvD-19 is gone. History. She'll be remembered as just another incompetent, Donnie stooge who didn't do her fucking job and people died. That is all.

[turbinetree]

55. So she has a chit chat just for old time sake, with aright bigot and hack.........Fuck her........

slicey and dicey, you talking on show that has asshole harping about some drug, that the orange asshole was promoting..........oh I don't know Lysol, and disinfectant and some malaria drug..................so tells us there Birx what do you think of that shit.............do you think the chyron should say that your "guy" is a "FUCKING LUNATIC" (in big old letters) and is always whining about himself and only worried about himself.............................so again Fuck you.................

Fucking resign...................your worthless if you also are going to be a whiner...............and looking for blame.........why don't you blame Hannity, Carlson, Ingraham and the three dip shits that sit on a white couch every morning spewing there shit, or Perrino.............nope, not you.........your just fucking irresponsible............

[NCjack]

56. Dr. Brix, it is not the job of the free press reporters to flatter the president and his

suck-ups. And, your job is to present the facts in a clear manner for the reporters. Looks like you have not reached the point in govt service that you can retire with sufficient retirement benefits. Too bad. It is past time for you to retire.

[Miguelito Loveless]

59. Okay, so Birx has either decided to sell out,

or she’s poured herself a tall glass of Clorox.

[Mr. Ected]

60. The same media that was SOOO fair to Obama and HRC?

Spare me the bullshit, Birx. You're politicizing a subject that kills indiscriminately. How dare you.

[Dopers_Greed]

62. She's bending the knee to Spanky

[displacedtexan]

63. Birx is on FOX auditioning for Azar's job. n/t

[jayfish]

65. That Was The "Favor". -NT-

[Lulu KC]

66. I don't believe her

and she's ruined scarves for all of us.

[flibbitygiblets]

67. Trump's Mengele doesn't find injecting people with disinfectant "dicey"

[Talitha]

69. That's just the 'official' announcement that they're going to skew the numbers.

[RussBLib]

71. the media isn't always fair

The hell you say. Duh! Hey, Deb, seen any Fox lately?

[iluvtennis]

72. Dr Birx is being dishonest about the dramatic decrease in deaths by the end of May. Look at Italy.

All one needs to do is look at the trend lines for Italy. While deaths and new cases has plateaued In Italy and on a downward trend, it's been gradual, not DRAMATIC as she is forecasting for the US.

I'd like to hear her rationale on why she thinks America's trend will be different that Italy/other countries in Europe. What have we done/are doing/will do here in the US to cause that DRAMATIC DECREASE in deaths.

To me, Dr Birx is exercising magical thinking like trump and it's disgusting to me coming from a medical professional.

[AKing]

79. Dr Happy Talk has lost any credibility she might have. Once you become a Trump stooge...

your reputation rarely recovers

[cp]

80. Hey lady, WE DON'T BELIEVE YOU.

Go away.

[Lock him up.]

81. I call her Baghdad Birx now. n/t

[Major Nikon]

84. There's a line between expert advisor and paid stooge

[niyad]

85. So, deb, please indicate which headlines, and tell us how they should have read to please

Dear Leader. How does one frame endless death and misery in a mindlessly, happy, lying WAY.???

[Totally Tunsie]

86. Will there be anyone left to die when the end of May comes along?

If states keep opening up, the second wave won't be far behind.

[SayItLoud]

87. She's a lost soul. NT

[keithbvadu2]

90. Overly optimistic? - Mitigation/isolation works

Overly optimistic?

[Steelrolled]

92. Hope she is right

So far, out ability to predict the future of this pandemic has been poor.

[mr_lebowski]

93. "frankly, the number of people who have succumbed to this disease, will be dramatically decreased"

And how the fuck is going to happen, exactly?

There going to be a Mass Resurrection around that time?

How about accurately choosing your words, DOCTOR?

Oh, that's right, you're Trump's handmaiden.

Gotta sound like an idiot, just like him, when you go on Faux Nooz.

[bucolic_frolic]

95. Study finds coronavirus could be more contagious than previously thought

Virus found on air pollution particulates, able to travel long distances.

[DallasNE]

97. What Is She Looking At

While New York seems to have passed the plateau the national numbers haven't yet started to bend. Too many hot spots and they keep popping up. Outwardly, she seems too optimistic. But I hope she is right.

[DallasNE]

98. What Is She Looking At

While New York seems to have passed the plateau the national numbers haven't yet started to bend. Too many hot spots and they keep popping up. Outwardly, she seems too optimistic. But I hope she is right.

[Sapient Donkey]

114. I'm guessing these models

https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america

[DallasNE]

115. But There Are No Standards On Reporting

More lack of federal leadership. The data is unreliable because no standards were set. I believe it was New Jersey where the dead in nursing homes were just stacked up in piles, apparently waiting to be claimed. How widespread is this. Just looking at that jagged chart tells you something is wrong. Normally you would use a 5 day moving average to smooth out the chart.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

99. The Worldometer graphs...

... of cases and deaths aren’t close to flat.

The graph of deaths looks like it MIGHT peak at 100,000 in the USA.

With several states reopening, the slope of the graphs will probably increase too.

[tclambert]

104. Nah, we'll hit 100,000 deaths even if no one else gets sick.

The people who got sick in the last two weeks have just started to die. Almost half the people with the disease caught it in the those two weeks.

All these predictions of "It's almost over" are way too optimistic. The isolation measures we've taken have slowed the RATE of growth, not stopped the disease in its tracks. That's a good thing. It will help keep the ICU's from overflowing. But the disease is still spreading. When weak governors give in to pressure and try to re-open their states, flare-ups will occur.

That mostly agrees with what you said. But peaking at 100,000? I think we are ultimately looking at American fatalities in the millions. Not in the next month, but over the next couple of years.

[andym]

100. She must be using the University of Washington model

https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america
It shows the number deaths per day falling quite rapidly over the next few weeks.
1012 by May 1 (Friday)
446 by May 8
183 by May 15
82 by May 22
37 by May 29
That would be great news--but let's see if the model is correct. It has had to be changed weekly to fit the data and has not yet been recently updated.

[Hekate]

101. She and her reputation are toast. We saw the moment when he broke her completely...

When he was babbling about UV rays up his ass or shining in one ear and out the other, and mainlining household bleach, the camera was on her. She looked absolutely sick. Then he turned to her and roped her in to his insanity. At that moment I knew the woman was broken. Her friends need to take her by the hand and lead her away.

[tonekat]

102. Dr. Scarf

Is plainly an apologist for the dark side.

[Joinfortmill]

108. She no longer has any credibility.

[live love laugh]

109. She should stick to her questionable expertise. nt

[Texaswitchy]

111. She is such a ass kisser.

[Sapient Donkey]

113. That is what the models seem suggest

I hope the models and she are correct about this, but I don't think those take into account opening up too early or the idiots who were out during protesting.