"As Johns Hopkins stated, their study should not be taken as a forecast".
You know the study I'm referring to. It's the study pushed around by some in the media as factual, a sort of forecast projecting the United States will have 200,000 cases of coronavirus infection per day by June 1.
Sounds scary, huh?
National Review referred to the study in a May 5 article (emphasis mine):
The big story this morning is a study by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, used in a draft government report, that projects the United States will have 200,000 cases of coronavirus infection per day by June 1, “a staggering jump that would be accompanied by more than 3,000 deaths each day.” The White House and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention insisted it was a draft report and not officially endorsed, even though the report has the CDC logo on it.Within two short hours, the White House put out a short quote from Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany (again, emphasis mine):
“The Johns Hopkins’ study being pushed around by the media as factual is based on faulty assumptions and is in no way representative of any federal government projections and, as Johns Hopkins stated, should not be taken as a forecast.
This “study” considered zero mitigation, meaning it was conducted as though no federal guidelines were in place, no contract tracing, no expansion of testing, while removing all shelter in place protocols laid out in the phased approach of the Opening Up America Again guidelines for individuals with co-morbidities. The media should be more responsible in its reporting and give the full set of information to the American public.”See how news outlets put forth these studies, projections as factual--using doom and gloom scenarios to make their point while hiding the methodology behind the study from their readers?
Kayleigh McEnany is on the ball doing a great job for President Trump and the American people.
