The White House's habit of inflating numbers is now being used to make Trump's handling of the pandemic seem less bad.
on April 16. “If there was no mitigation, it could have even been higher than that,” he added, although the 2.2 million figure was explicitly derived from a scenario with no mitigation, as Birx said at the time.On May 19, Trumpa new high“We saved millions of lives. Millions and millions of lives,” Trump said. “You would have had anywhere from a million-five to two million-five, three million lives.
Perhaps the most eyebrow-raising part of that comment, of course, is that the White House is “working on” developing a hard figure representing the number of lives saved. In March, it rejected 2.2 million as too high. Accepting that figure as instead an inevitable worst-case tally, the number of lives saved to date is a bit over 2 million.Though, of course, the alternative depended on doing literally nothing.
So it’s worth remembering that, when first presented with the Imperial College estimate of 2.2 million dead, the White House’s task force coordinator rejected it as excessive.
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