Coronavirus projections for Washington, D.C.: local govt vs. UW's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation ( @IHME_UW)

Peak in cases:
DC govt: End of June
IHME: Middle of April

Excess ICU beds needed:
DC govt: 2,705
IHME: 47

Excess ventilators needed
DC govt: 1,030
IHME: 0

Two points:

1) The Covid projections are all over the place. That's because,

2) We're still at a data-poor phase of the crisis, where we don't know if our statistics are measuring an exponential reality or maxing out our ability to measure, in the first place