How much we can push the mortality down is really the issue: US authorities

Edited excerpts from a press conference with the US President Donald Trump, Dr Deborah Birx and Dr Anthony Fauci

Speaker 1: Just to be clear, what is the projected death toll? Should people be reasonably good at following these mitigation measures?

Donald Trump: Well, are they reasonably good? I guess we could say that, I’d like to have maybe Dr Fauci or Deb come up and say, but I have numbers, but I’d rather have them say the numbers if you don’t mind. It’s a big question.

Dr Birx: So of course this is a projection and it’s a projection based on using very much what’s happened in Italy, and then looking at all the models, and so as you saw