Deborah Birx: “So, in the flu models, the worst case scenario is between 1.6 million…”

On the recordMay 5, 2022

So, in the flu models, the worst case scenario is between 1.6 million and 2.2 deaths. That`s the projection if you do nothing. So, we`ve never really done all of these things that we`re doing. We`ve put them into a model. We`ve looked at the Italy data with their self isolation, and that`s where we come up with. If we do things together well, almost perfectly, we could get in the range of 100,000 to 200,000 fatalities. We don`t even want to see that.

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Deborah Birx discusses the potential death toll from COVID-19 and the importance of taking action.

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