Gosh....That strikes me as being political. Hope no one gets all huffy about it.
Health News
May 4, 2020 / 7:31 AM / Updated an hour ago
Researchers double U.S. COVID-19 death forecast, citing eased restrictions
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A newly revised coronavirus mortality model predicts nearly 135,000 Americans will die from COVID-19 by early August, almost double previous projections, as social-distancing measures for quelling the pandemic are increasingly relaxed, researchers said on Monday...
...The revised IHME projections coincided with disclosure of an internal Trump administration forecast predicting a surge in COVID-19 cases killing 3,000 Americans a day by the end of May, up from a current daily toll that a Reuters tally places at around 2,000.
That projection, first reported by the New York Times and confirmed by a Reuters source, also forecast about 200,000 new coronavirus cases each day by the end of the month, up from the current rate of about 25,000 cases every 24 hours.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-idUSKBN22G1T3L.A. Times says: As of May 4, 7:07pm 56,134 confirmed COVID 19 cases and 2287 deaths in California.
Reality doesn't care about politics.