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    Nicholas Goldberg: We weren't supposed to get anywhere near 1 million COVID deaths in the US. Then we did

    by Nicholas Goldberg, Los Angeles Times Apr 19, 2022 4 minutes
    U.S. President Donald Trump, with Vice President Mike Pence, arrives as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci, right, looks on at a press briefing on the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic with members of the Coronavirus Task Force on Thursday, March 26, 2020 at the White House in Washington, D.C..

    At the start of the pandemic, in late March 2020, President Donald Trump held a White House briefing at which his top advisers presented their official COVID-19 death projections. In somber tones, they forecasted that between 100,000 and 240,000 Americans would die from the disease if we followed reasonable social-distancing and other mitigation guidelines.

    Two hundred and forty thousand! That was an inconceivable amount of death. Four times the number of Americans who died in Vietnam. Eighty times the number who died in the 9/11 attacks.

    "As sobering a number as that is, we should be prepared for it," said Dr.

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