The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention predicted that if people practice social distancing, the death toll from the coronavirus in the United States will be lower than what health experts have projected.

“If we just social distance, we will see this virus and this outbreak basically decline, decline, decline. And I think that’s what you’re seeing,” said Robert Redfield, according to CBS News. “I think you’re going to see the numbers are, in fact, going to be much less than what would have been predicted by the models.”