WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Tuesday (Mar 31) warned of a 'very painful' two weeks as the United States wrestles with a coronavirus surge ...
Paramedics push a gurney with a patient to Brooklyn Hospital Centre Emergency Room in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Angela Weiss/AFPWASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned of a"very painful" two weeks as the United States wrestles with a coronavirus surge that the White House warns could kill as many as 240,000 Americans.
"This is going to be a very painful, a very, very painful two weeks," Trump told a press conference at the White House."I want every American to be prepared for the hard days that lie ahead," he said.Top health experts said that the decision to maintain strict social distancing was the only way to stop the easily transmitted virus, even if this has caused massive disruption to the economy with three quarters of Americans under some form of lockdown.
Infectious diseases specialist Anthony Fauci told the press conference that"mitigation is actually working" and that authorities are"doing everything we can to get it significantly below that."
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