In late March 2020 two of the US federal government’s top health experts, doctors Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx, delivered a stark assessment about the potential for catastrophic loss of life in the US from Covid-19.
Even with lockdowns and social distancing, they warned during a public briefing of the coronavirus task force, between 100,000 and 240,000 people may die before the virus waned or was vanquished...
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