At this rate, we'll hit 100k by the middle of the month. I wonder what it's like to have a leader in office.
wellllllllllllll, it does appear he said "hopefully".
Feb 28: "There have been no deaths in the United States at all. A lot of that is attributable to the fact that we closed the border very early. Otherwise, it could be a different story. So, we'll -- we'll just keep doing a good job."
March 6: "In terms of deaths, I don't know what the count is today. Is it 11? Eleven people? And in terms of cases, it's very, very few. When you look at other countries, it's a very tiny fraction because we've been very strong at the borders."
March 10: "Look, right now, I guess we're at 26 deaths. And if you look at the flu -- the flu, for this year -- we're looking at 8,000 deaths. So you have 8,000 versus 26 deaths at this time."
March 12: "We have 32 deaths at this point. Other countries that are smaller countries have many, many deaths. Thirty-two is a lot. Thirty-two is too many. But when you look at the kind of numbers that you're seeing coming out of other countries, it's pretty amazing when you think of it."
March 12: "If you go back and look at the swine flu and what happened with the swine flu, you'll see how many people died and how actually nothing was done for such a long period of time, as people were dying all over the place. We're doing it the opposite. We're very much ahead of everything."
March 23: "I think we're doing a very good job of it. If you look at other countries, what they've been through, and you look at the kind of numbers and compare them to ours -- which is a much larger country than most -- the numbers are pretty amazing. And it started with the fact that we stopped people from coming in from a highly affected area and infected area."
March 23: "I didn't say [we'd open the country back up in] a week, but I said 'soon'. It's going to be soon. It's not going to be three or four months, as some people were saying and a lot of people thought originally."
March 23: "It's looking like it's heading to 50,000 or more deaths...which is -- that's a lot. And you look at automobile accidents, which are far greater than any numbers we're talking about. That doesn't mean we're going to tell everybody 'No more driving of cars.'"
March 25: "If I didn't do that early call on China...thousands and thousands of people would have died."
March 29: "If we can hold that down, as we're saying, to 100,000 -- that's a horrible number...we all, together, have done a very good job..."
March 29: "On Easter, we probably, well, that could be a peak period. That could be the peak. Sadly to say, that could be the peak number of deaths before it starts coming down..."
March 30: "We picked the end of April, the last day, April 30th, as the day where we can see some real progress and we expect to see that. And then, by a little short of June, maybe June 1st, we think the -- you know, it's a terrible thing to say -- but we think the deaths will be a very low number. It will be brought down to a very low number from right now, from where it's getting to reach its peak."
April 10: "And we did the right thing, because maybe it would have been 2 million people died instead of whatever that final number will be, which could be 60, could be 70, could be 75, could be 55 [thousand]."
April 16: "...between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths with mitigation. It's looking like we will come far under even these lowest numbers..."'
April 19: "It looks like we'll be at about a 60,000 mark, which is 40,000 less than the lowest number thought of..."
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