Coronavirus: Grim Models Project High U.S. Toll in Months-Long Crisis

Models predicting expected spread of the virus in the U.S. paint a grim picture.

The coronavirus studies that appear to have convinced President Trump to prolong disruptive social distancing in the United States paint a grim picture of a pandemic that is likely to ravage the country over the next several months, killing close to 100,000 Americans and infecting millions more.

Medical workers transferred the bodies of people who had died after contracting the virus to a temporary morgue in Brooklyn on Monday.Credit...Justin Lane/EPA, via Shutterstock

White House officials have not specifically said which of several epidemiological models by researchers around the world they used to persuade Mr. Trump to extend federal guidelines that call for people to remain in their homes, limit travel, work from home and refrain from gathering in groups of 10 or more. But the administration’s leading scientists — including Dr. Anthony S. Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx, who is coordinating the coronavirus response — have said that several of the publicly available studies generally match their own conclusions about the deadly impact of the virus. via The New York Times

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This week brought a Steven Spielberg blockbuster no one saw coming. On Wednesday, the director’s daughter Mikaela announced to the world that she is embarking on a film career of her own — as a porn star.
The 23-year-old told the Sun about making solo sex videos that she posted on PornHub.com and how she is working to get licensed to become an exotic dancer in Nashville. The self-proclaimed “sexual creature” said she “got really tired of not being able to capitalize on my body.” She’s now launched an account on the OnlyFans app, on which viewers can pay a $15 monthly subscription fee to watch her.
Despite this, Mikaela said that her parents, Steven and his wife of 29 years, actress Kate Capshaw, are “not upset” and are even “intrigued” by her life choices. A Spielberg source told The Post, “As Mikaela said, Steven and Kate are nothing but supportive of her, as they are with all their children.”

But, according to a friend of the family, there’s more to it. “Obviously, though, they’re embarrassed by her sudden public admission of entry into the sex worker world.” - A family friend “Outwardly, Steven and Kate — who are the most evolved parents in the world and love their kids beyond all measure — have always been supportive of Mikaela and try to understand her,” said the family friend.  “Obviously, though, they’re embarrassed by her sudden public admission of entry into the sex worker world.”
Kate, 66, and Steven, 73, met on the set of his 1984 film “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” in which she co-starred, and she converted to Judaism to marry him. The couple has seven kids between them. Jessica Capshaw, who has acted on “Grey’s Anatomy” since 2005, is Kate’s 43-year-old daughter from her marriage to Robert Capshaw, a marketing manager. Max, 34, is from Steven’s marriage to actress Amy Irving. Kate had an adopted son, Theo, now 31, and Steven adopted him too. The couple went on to have daughters Sasha, 29, and Destry, 23, and son Sawyer, 27, as well as adopting Mikaela.