Top 20 Stories of 2020

#7 Will I get sick, will I die? Surprises in the COVID-19 hard data on infections, mortality, as the April 6th witching hour nears

Ok, so COVID-19 really made several of our Top 20 most read stories in 2020, no surprise, but this story published in late March talked about how stunned viewers of CNN’s State of the Union program on Sunday morning heard Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases say that “projections showed the (COVOD-19) disease would kill between 100,000 and 200,000 Americans and infect far more,” and predicted “millions of cases” while warning that the projections and number are fluid. The director also noted that an end to US economic and social shutdown is going ” to be a matter of weeks,” and depends on when exactly 15-minute COVID-19 tests are available at scale.

Well, we all know that was off – deaths are now well over 300,000 people – way beyond estimates from March – and the economic and social shutdown certainly was not a matter of weeks but is still going on. Nonetheless, it’s super fun to go back in time and see what we were saying in March about ‘Rona Cyclona.

More on the story, here.