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"[...] Mr Trump made a series of bold claims during his opening remarks, including saying the federal government now expects “around 60,000, maybe 65,000” deaths inside the United States from the virus."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-coronavirus-conference-today-ventilators-us-death-toll-white-house-a9471806.html

I don't see this happening. Death count is at 37k with around 2k-2.5k added each day. 60k will be reached in about 10 days. Does anyone seriously believe this is completely over in 10 days? The amount of active cases in the US is also still very high. Even if everyone who is infected now recovered within the next 10 days, there would be 300k-350k new infections.