WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Sunday that he expects the US death count for the coronavirus to be at about 60,000.

Johns Hopkins reported Monday that the death toll crossed the 40,000 threshold.

"If we didn't do what we did, the 40,000 people right now could be a million," Trump said.

Earlier, the U.S. government's foremost infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said the nation will certainly have “millions of cases” of COVID-19 and more than 100,000 deaths.

Trump compared the coronavirus deaths to the flu.

"It's even a much different death, to be honest. A much different death," he said. "This is violent."

