Trump’s Easter Restart Undone by His Experts’ Dire Virus Models
- Fauci, Birx made Oval Office plea to maintain strict measures
- Fresh data showed relaxing restrictions could be disastrous
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As President Donald Trump’s coronavirus response team gathered at the White House Sunday to discuss re-opening the U.S. for business by Easter, his top health experts painted a troubling picture of what lay ahead.
Deborah Birx, an immunologist picked by Vice President Mike Pence to weigh the ailment’s impact, cautioned that the U.S. outbreak was still two weeks away from its peak. Her reading of the data also led her to an even more worrisome conclusion: that the nation was likely tens of thousands of hospital beds short of the anticipated need.