The White House coronavirus response coordinator said Monday that she is "very worried about every city in the United States" and projects 100,000 to 200,000 American deaths as a best case scenario.

In an interview on TODAY, Dr. Deborah Birx painted a grim message about the expected fatalities, echoing that without doing any measures they could hit as high as 2.2 million, as coronavirus cases continue to climb throughout the U.S.

"I think everyone understands now that you can go from five to 50 to 500 to 5000 cases very quickly," Birx said. "I think in some of the metro areas we were late in getting people to follow the 15-day guidelines" she added.

Birx said the projections by Dr. Anthony Fauci that U.S. deaths could range from 1.6 million to 2.2 million deaths is a worst case scenario if the country did "nothing" to contain the outbreak, but she said even "if we do things almost perfectly," she still predicts up to 200,000 U.S. deaths.

NOTE from Ron: Dr. Birx is on record as saying the the current US President is a good scientist, and her figures may be influenced by her political loyalties over her medical ones. Tragically, Dr. Fauci's dismal death numbers of near two million may be closer to reality. Stay safe and stay home, everybody!