LONDON (AP) — Americans are bracing for what the nation’s top doctor warned would be “the hardest and saddest week” of their lives.
Surgeon General Jerome Adams told “Fox News Sunday” that deaths from the coronavirus would make this moment reminiscent of Pearl Harbor and Sept. 11. New York City saw a glimmer of hope, with daily deaths and ICU admissions falling slightly.
Meanwhile, Britain assumed the unwelcome mantle of the deadliest hotspot in Europe after a record 24-hour jump in deaths that surpassed even hard-hit Italy.
As warm, sunny weather beckoned across Europe, Queen Elizabeth II appealed to Britons to exercise self-discipline in “an increasingly challenging time.”
Britain recorded 708 new coronavirus deaths Saturday while Italy reported 631 deaths that day.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Surgeon General Jerome Adams is offering some of the starkest warnings yet as he braces Americans for the worsening fallout from the new coronavirus.
He says in a television interview Sunday that “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. Adams tells ``Fox News Sunday'' that ”this is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9/11 moment, only it’s not going to be localized."