No, it’s not Trump’s ‘goal’ that between 100,000 and 240,000 die from the coronavirus

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No, it’s not Trump’s ‘goal’ that between 100,000 and 240,000 die from the coronavirus
Washington Examiner, Apr 1, 2020

The White House’s current goal is to prevent coronavirus-related deaths from numbering in the millions.

It is not the administration’s “goal” that somewhere between 100,000 and 240,000 die from this viral pandemic. That should be obvious, but some on social media took that message away from a viral tweet by a New York Times reporter this week.

President Trump and Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx held another press briefing Tuesday to discuss the White House’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. During the briefing, the White House displayed a chart titled “Goal of community mitigation.”

The chart, whose purpose was to explain the administration's efforts to “flatten the curve,” showed the difference between a pandemic outbreak with no intervention versus a pandemic outbreak with intervention. To underscore the contrast between the two approaches, the chart included projected death counts: 1.5 to 2.2 million deaths with no intervention and 100,000 to 240,000 deaths with intervention. The "goal" of "community mitigation," then, is to ensure that the death toll does not number in the millions, the chart explains.

New York Times national political reporter Shane Goldmacher captured the moment on social media, tweeting to his 58,000 social media followers: “This White House briefing room slide lists as ‘goals’ 100,000 to 240,000 deaths. Breathtaking.”

This White House briefing room slide lists as "goals" 100,000 to 240,000 deaths.  Again, the White House graphic highlighted by Goldmacher was about the goal of “community mitigation.” The administration's operating model for deaths was not even introduced until later in the briefing by Birx.

For reference, that second chart outlining the White House’s operating model for deaths looked like this:



As of this writing, Goldmacher's tweet has been shared by more than 11,700 social media users, including New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman, New York Times White House correspondent Katie Rogers, the New Yorker’s Susan Glasser, GQ’s Julia Ioffe, Vox’s Dylan Matthews, and NBC News’s Tom Winter.


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