https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bv8gym/amateur-hour-white-house-graph-shows-covid-19-deaths-hitting-0-in-10-days

On Tuesday, the White House Council of Economic Advisors, an agency tasked with giving Donald Trump advice on the economy, tweeted a graph that looks like it was edited in MS Paint and includes a line, marked in red, that suggests deaths from Covid-19 will drop to 0 in a little over a week from now.

This obvious nonsense, which does not jibe with the latest projections or present reality, is spectacularly dangerous as the rightwing in the U.S. pushes for people to return to work even as the virus continues to claim more than 1,000 lives every day. Its existence was reported over the weekend by the Washington Post, which noted that the so-called "cubic fit" model, represented in red, was concocted by Kevin Hassett. Hassett is the former chairman of the Trump CEA from 2017 to 2019 and is now back working with the committee. He has a reputation for being wrong a lot and no background in infectious diseases, the Post notes. Nonetheless, "White House officials have been relying on [the cubic fit and] other models to make decisions on reopening," the Post reported.