WASHINGTON – Surgeon General Jerome Adams offered some of the starkest warnings yet Sunday as he braced Americans for the worsening fallout from the new coronavirus, warning “this is going to be the hardest and the saddest week of most Americans’ lives, quite frankly." The number of people infected in the U.S.
has exceeded 300,000, with the death toll climbing past 8,400; more than 3,500 of those deaths are in the state of New York.
Much of the country is under orders to stay home, and federal officials said that have seen signs that people are listening to the message about social distancing.
But the Trump administration also is also emphasizing that the worst is yet to come for many communities. “This is going to be our Pearl Harbor