(CNN) President Donald Trump's decision to extend social distancing guidelines until April 30 came after officials reviewed 12 different statistical models, said Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, during a Sunday press briefing. That analysis, which is publicly available, paints a grim picture of what's to come in the US, even with social distancing in place. And assuming social distancing will continue through May, it finds that, by August, around 82,000 people in the US could die from Covid-19. State and local officials should quickly react to the coronavirus threat and enact social distancing measures, she said, so that "we'll be able to move forward together and protect the most Americans." As more information becomes available, the IHME coronavirus model could change, and outlooks for states could worsen if mandated social distancing is not enacted and followed.

Source: CNN March 30, 2020 19:07 UTC