Vice President Pence said the spread of the coronavirus would likely prove less severe than some early forecasts projected, as a Monday deadline self-imposed by President Trump to decide on whether to reopen portions of the country approaches.

Early models are “now being understood to have been really wrong,” Pence said in a Friday CNBC appearance. “We’re really following the data here: ,n terms of the infection rate that we’ve seen, what we know of China, the data from South Korea, from Italy, from other places around the world.”