During Thursday’s press briefing at the White House, President Donald Trump announced that he had been re-tested for coronavirus (COVID-19) and tested negative. “I did…
The peak, in this timeline, will hit on April 15 — with a lessening tail of death and infection stretching into mid-June.
This assessment was, the White House’s health experts stressed, still only a projection. And it was one that was shifting by the day, as health care workers, scientific researchers and everyday people all ramped up their own efforts to slow and treat new infections, including by practicing social distancing.
The final death toll could be lower. The new virus, which emerged only months ago, was not yet fully understood. Modeling out what it would do to people was still only an informed guess., a leading infectious disease expert and member of President Trump‘s coronavirus task force: “This is a number that we need to anticipate.”
“I want every American to be prepared for the hard days that lie ahead,” Trump told reporters at Tuesday night’s coronavirus briefing, using some of his starkest language to date about a virus he had previously downplayed.RELATED: Kindness During Coronavirus Fear: The Most Inspiring Ways Americans Are Pulling Together“This is the thing that we need to anticipate, but that doesn’t mean that that’s what we’re going to accept,” Dr. Fauci told reporters. “We want to do much, much better than that.
As of Thursday, there are now at least 243,729 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the United States, the most worldwide.As information about theis committed to providing the most recent data in our coverage. Some of the information in this story may have changed after publication. For the latest on COVID-19, readers are encouraged to use online resources from
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