NEW YORK (HRNW) – US governors on Sunday appealed to the White House for a national strategy against the fast-spreading coronavirus, as deaths surged and health authorities warned the coming week could resemble a “Pearl Harbor moment.”
The US death toll was creeping toward the grim milestone of 10,000 as the pandemic s epicenter in New York racked up hundreds of lives lost a day and hospitals girded for an influx of new infected patients.
Anthony Fauci, the senior American scientist battling the pandemic stateside, warned of a looming “escalation,” saying Americans should prepare for “a bad week.”
“I will not say we have it under control,” Fauci told CBS Sunday. “That would be a false statement.”
US Surgeon General Jerome Adams sounded an even more dire alarm.
“This is going to be the hardest and the saddest week of most Americans lives, quite frankly,” he told Fox News.
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