Scientist behind coronavirus study contradicts Trump's claim that he saved 2 million lives
President Donald Trump has boasted repeatedly that he saved 2.2 million lives from COVID-19, using a figure in a British modeling study to support his claim.
It’s not getting better. Cases are up in the U.S. and a number of states are smashing records for daily increases. The president and many White House officials also do not wear masks, or maintaining 6 feet of social distance. The study estimated that in the very worst case scenario as many as 2.2 million Americans could die of COVID-19. But that would occur only if government officials and individuals took absolutely no action to stem the spread of the disease or protect themselves — a scenario which would be highly “unlikely,” the study noted.
They also warned that the “social and economic effects” of such measures would be “profound.” Restrictions could be “relaxed temporarily in relative short time windows” when cases are down, but measures “will need to be reintroduced if or when case numbers rebound.” Ferguson said that if states “put in place rigorous test and trace systems, and people continue to act in a way which reduces transmission risk, then I am hopeful that full-scale lockdowns may not need to be reimposed.”
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