Question 46-50    As some states in America moved to open their economies from the pandemic lockdown, TheNew York Times reported that a government model predicted a dramatic increase in the death toll fromCOVID-19. The estimate that nearly 3,000 people would die per day by June __46__ by the modeler,who said the data was incomplete. __47__ the report came the same day that another modeling groupsharply increased their forecast of how many would die of the disease. The new estimate of nearly135,000 deaths by August is more than double what the group was predicting just three weeks ago. Thegroup, at the University of Washington Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, __48__ advisingthe White House on COVID-19 policy. But it is __49__ the only group modeling the pandemic’strajectory. Data analysis blog FiveThirtyEight.com highlights six major groups __50__ of death tollpredictions vary by tens of thousands. Differences among their state-level forecasts are even moresignificant
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(A) was disavowed
(B) disavowed
(C) were disavowed
(D) disavowing