Trump had previously seized on the estimate of 50,000 to 60,000.
President Donald Trump on Monday acknowledged more Americans would die of the coronavirus than he has recently predicted, now saying that the nationwide toll is likely to be between 60,000 and 70,000.
More than 56,000 have already died, according to the Johns Hopkins tracker.
“So, yeah, we’ve lost a lot of people,” Trump said during a press briefing in the Rose Garden. “But if you look at what original projections were, 2.2 million, we are probably heading to 60,000 to 70,000.” Continue reading.