As the holidays approach, Americans batten down the hatches for a brutal week of coronavirus numbers,

doctors and politicians bat around solutions, and President Trump and Joe Biden go at it.

I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

The Ben Shapiro show is sponsored by ExpressVPN, surf the web with peace of mind, signed up right now at ExpressatVPN.com. Slash appell. That's ExpressVPN.com slash pen. Well, I hope that you had a wonderful relaxing weekend, which was exactly the same as your weekday now. I mean, it is incredible how all the days just sort of meld into one another, particularly if you have children, then there is no day. We are all just living one long day. That is all that is happening right now, just the longest day. And this is

supposed to be the longest week. And pretty much everybody is an agreement that this week is

going to be very, very bad in terms of the coronavirus numbers. We've seen over a thousand deaths,

most of those in New York City, over the course of the last

three or four days. Our current coronavirus account right now is well over, it's well over

9,000 deaths. Have we surpass 10,000 deaths in the United States at this point? If not,

then we will today. The United States is standing as of yesterday at

9,679 deaths. There were about 1,100 to 1,200 deaths yesterday in the United States from coronavirus.

There's a little bit of good news, and that is if you look at some of the models that are being

used here, they're being revised downward. So the model that comes from University of Washington, that's the model,

the so-called Murray model that was being used by the White House, that model has now been revised

up in terms of peak and down in terms of duration, which is overall not a horrible thing,

given the fact that they've actually lowered their death estimate fairly tremendously over

the last four days. Last week, I read to you from the model, and they said there were going to be about 94,000 deaths in the United States by August 1st, 2020. Now they are suggesting there will be 82,000 COVID-19 deaths by August 4th, 2020. Now, what's amazing about that modeling is which factors are changing, right? What exactly is

changing? It's hard to tell. So it is not that people are staying home more. That was already

taken into account in the model. What it is suggesting is that it's raging like wildfire

where it's raging. And then after that, it stops raging. And this is the estimate that is being

put forward, not by me, but by a scientist over at East Anglia University.

He's suggesting that people have been underestimating how fast this thing is going to burn.

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