Americans must brace for 100,000 or more people to die in the coming months amid the coronavirus pandemic, the White House response team warned.
Public health officials warn that infections and deaths may not peak for the next few weeks; it isn't clear when, except that the disaster will get worse.
Social distancing and other protocols cause that estimated curve to be shorter in height, which is why they're so essential, Birx said. She and Fauci said the models they've cited still were subject to change based on the ongoing response. Americans must continue to stay home, keep apart, wash their hands and take the other steps that public health officials have urged, Birx said.
The United States, he added, can't"take its foot off the accelerator and put it onto the brakes — I know that's what we can do over the next 30 days."Americans in many places are under more stringent restrictions than those in the federal guidelines. Governors and mayors have ordered people to stay at home and business to close through May and into June in some cases.
For a time, Trump and Vice President Pence sustained a vision of a phase in which at least some locations could relax their efforts on pandemic mitigation to bring portions of the economy back to life.
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