--- title: "Trump Admin Expects Daily COVID Deaths to Nearly Double by June" description: "According to internal documents obtained by The New York Times, the US Centers for Disease Control expects daily new coronavirus cases to surge from about 25,000 to 200,000 and deaths from 1,750 to 3,000 by June 1. The news comes after several US states have made moves to slowly reopen their economies — despite the […]" date: "2020-05-04" modified: "2020-05-04" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/neoscope/covid19-daily-deaths-nearly-double-june" categories: - "Developments" - "Health & Medicine" tags: - "coronavirus" - "covid19" --- # Trump Admin Expects Daily COVID Deaths to Nearly Double by June ![According to internal documents obtained by The New York Times, the CDC expects daily new coronavirus cases to surge from about 25,000 to 200,000.]() *\Image: Victor Tangermann\* According to internal [documents]() [obtained by *The New York Times*](), the US Centers for Disease Control expects daily new coronavirus cases to surge from about 25,000 to 200,000 — and daily deaths to nearly double, from 1,750 to 3,000 per day, by June 1. The news comes after several US states [have made moves]() to slowly reopen their economies, despite the country seeing record numbers of new cases and COVID-19 related deaths. According to [John Hopkins University's dashboard](), the US currently has more than 1,170,000 confirmed cases — more than the next six countries in the list combined. As the *Times* points out, the new numbers show that not much has changed despite a seven week long quarantine period. Reopening would likely have [compounding adverse effects](). "While mitigation didn’t fail, I think it’s fair to say that it didn’t work as well as we expected," Scott Gottlieb, president Donald Trump’s former commissioner of food and drugs, told *CBS* on Sunday. "We expected that we would start seeing more significant declines in new cases and deaths around the nation at this point. And we’re just not seeing that." The White House questioned the legitimacy of the documents, noting that "this data is not reflective of any of the modeling done by the task force or data that the task force has analyzed," according to a spokesperson who talked to the *Times*. ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()