Good tuesday morning, everybody. It is may 5th. Im yasmin vossoughian. Weve got a lot to cover this morning, as we always do. The president pushing states to relax social distancing guidelines. New scientific models are projecting sharp increases in the number of deaths from the coronavirus over the next few weeks and months. One projection from an internal Trump Administration document obtained by the new york times, the other from a Public University of washington model often cited by the white house. First, the government projections. I want to show you these. The data showing the daily death toll will nearly double from about 750 deaths currently to about 3,000 a day on june 1st. New cases are projected to go from about 25,000 a day to 200,000. The president was asked about the report in an interview with the New York Post and he said, quote, this. I know nothing about it. I dont know anything about it. Nobody told me that. I think its i think its false. I think its fake news. The
York times. The other is from a Public University of washington model often cited by the white house. First, the government projections show the daily death toll there nearly double, from about 1,750 deaths currently to about 3,000 a day on june 1st. This is pretty dramatically different than where people were thinking. New cases are projected to go from about 25,000 a day to 200,000. The president was asked about the report in an interview with the New York Post. He said, quote, i know nothing about it. I dont know anything about it. Nobody told me that. I think its false. I think its fake news. The white house put out the following statement. This is not a white house document nor has it been presented to the Coronavirus Task force or gone through interagency vetting. This data is not reflective of any modeling, any of the modeling done by the task force or data that the task force has analyzed. The other set of data from the institute for health, metrics, and evaluation at the unive