{"id":19847,"date":"2020-03-31T14:42:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T12:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=19847"},"modified":"2020-03-31T14:42:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T12:42:57","slug":"82000-americans-could-die-from-covid19-by-august-despite-social-distancing-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=19847","title":{"rendered":"82,000 Americans could die from COVID19 by August Despite social distancing &#8211; White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">CNN &#8211; President Donald Trump&#8217;s decision to extend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/03\/21\/health\/social-distancing-coronavirus-faq-wellness-trnd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social distancing guidelines<\/a>\u00a0until April 30 came after officials reviewed 12 different statistical models, said Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, during a Sunday press briefing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">But standing in the Rose Garden, Birx also mentioned\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.healthdata.org\/projections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">another model<\/a>, created independently, that &#8220;ended up at the same numbers.&#8221; That analysis, which is publicly available, paints a grim picture of what&#8217;s to come in the US, even with social distancing in place.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">As of Monday morning, it estimates that more than 2,000 people could die each day in the United States in mid-April, when the virus is predicted to hit the country hardest. The model, which is updated regularly, predicts that 224,000 hospital beds &#8212; 61,000 more than we&#8217;ll have &#8212; will be needed on April 15, when the US is estimated to reach &#8220;peak resource use.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN &#8211; President Donald Trump&#8217;s decision to extend social distancing guidelines\u00a0until April 30 came after officials reviewed 12 different statistical models, said Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, during a Sunday press briefing. But standing in the Rose Garden, Birx also mentioned\u00a0another model, created independently, that &#8220;ended up at the same numbers.&#8221; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4220,388],"tags":[10545,10544,10547,2520,10538,2490,10546,10548,2747,2470,2316],"class_list":["post-19847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-slide","tag-000-americans","tag-10544","tag-by-august","tag-could","tag-covid19","tag-despite","tag-die-from","tag-distancing","tag-house","tag-social","tag-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19849,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19847\/revisions\/19849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}