Fox anchor praises the White House for pushing back on CDC projections showing 3,000 daily COVID-19 deaths
Cheryl Casone It “makes sense” for the White House to disagree with the CDC projection because models have been “all over the place”
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From the May 4, 2020, edition of Fox Business' Making Money with Charles Payne
BLAKE BURMAN (REPORTER): You mentioned projections, Cheryl. There is an internal CDC model that is also garnering attention today, as it predicts that by June 1st, roughly 3,000 people could die daily from COVID-19. That would be an escalation from where things stand at this very moment. Fox is told though that it does not take into account continued mitigation guidelines during the reopening phase that many states are entering into at this point in time. Right now the White House is pushing back on this model.
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CHERYL CASONE (FOX BUSINESS ANCHOR): And the models have been, as we've found over the past couple of months, been all over the place as is. So that makes sense, the White House is pushing back on those reports.