Is The U.S. Facing 100 Million Covid Cases This Fall?

 

CNN: New White House Covid projection puzzles experts and catches some Biden officials off guard 

(CNN)It was a stern and startling warning from the White House's new Covid response coordinator: In the fall and winter, the US could potentially see 100 million new Covid-19 infections if Congress doesn't approve federal funding to fight the pandemic. 

That warning from Dr. Ashish Jha, who said the projection was based on a range of internal and external models, jolted some public health experts and even came a surprise to some top Biden administration officials, with sources telling CNN that the grim forecast -- and details of where exactly that 100 million number had been derived from -- was not discussed with some key officials intimately involved in the administration's work to fight Covid before Jha's TV interview over the weekend.  

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Update: Are 100 million new COVID-19 cases coming? (Deseret News)  

WNU Editor: There seems to be some doubts on the projected 100 million Covid cases later this year. But there are no doubts on this number .... U.S. surpasses 1 million COVID-19 deaths: A look at the numbers (CBC).