aggressively like we were doing across the country, we would lose that many americans in that first surge. there was a group in the white house that took the same data i was using, used a different case fatality rate. you have to know data, and our data was so delayed in the united states for reporting, that you couldn t use our data. but they used our data. i used european data because the colleagues in europe had been so good about sending me their data. i m so grateful to them, and so my projections were based on an accurate case fatality. the cea group, our council of economic advisers, did a seperal analysis and came up with an answer of 26,000. i m saying 100,000 and more. they re saying 26,000. that number resonated with many because it was similar to a normal flu season. and in that moment, i think the president felt that i had betrayed him and made up the