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National Distancing Extended to April 30, Experts Anticipate US COVID-19 Deaths to Peak Around Easter

President Donald Trump today said he anticipates the peak of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States to happen in two weeks and is calling for an extension of national social distancing guidelines to April 30, 2020. Dr. Birx noted what she called a “large confidence interval,” in the model.  “And so, it’s anywhere in the model between 80,000 and 160,000, maybe even potentially 200,000 people succumbing to this–that’s with mitigation.”