Citation From the April 8, 2020, edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight

TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): At this point, we should not be surprised that the model got it wrong. The [Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation’s] prediction of how many hospital beds we'd need turned out to be completely disconnected from reality, and that matters quite a bit it turns out because those numbers were the main justification for this lockdown.

Remember efforts to flatten the curve? They weren't crazy. It was a good reason for doing that. We didn't want our health care system to collapse under a flood of new coronavirus patients, and so far it has not collapsed, but not because we prepared effectively. We didn't really. There were just far fewer people who needed inpatient medical treatment than we thought there would be. For example, the model predicted that on April 4, New York would need 65,000 hospital beds. The actual number was 16,000.

Now, you're hearing people now say that the spread between the prediction and the reality must be due to social distancing. But that is not true. Social distancing measures were factored into the model from the beginning. The prediction turned out to be four times larger than what actually happened. Social distancing didn't do that. Something else skewed the numbers. We don't know what it is; we should find out.