Trump says holding U.S. coronavirus deaths between 100,000 to 200,000 would be 'good job'

President Donald Trump on Sunday extended his stay-at-home guidelines until the end of April. After a top medical adviser said more than 100,000 Americans could die from the coronavirus outbreak, Trump has dropped a hotly criticized plan to get the economy up and running by mid-April.

The reversal by Trump came as the U.S. death toll topped 2,460 from the respiratory disease, according to a Reuters tally, with more than 141,000 cases, the most of any country in the world. Earlier on Sunday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told CNN that the pandemic could ultimately kill between 100,000 and 200,000 people in the United States if mitigation was not successful. Since 2010, the flu has killed between 12,000 and 61,000 Americans a year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The 1918-1919 flu pandemic killed 675,000 in the United States, according to the CDC.