On March 18, 2020, the Los Angeles Times published a headline stating:

“Coronavirus poses dreadful choice for global leaders: Wreck your economy or lose millions of lives”

The Article states:

The White House has based some of its new plans on a research model developed by doctors and scientists at Imperial College in London that suggests the coronavirus epidemic in the United States could kill at least 2.2 million Americans over the next few months if left uncontrolled.