The US surgeon general said this week is going to be the “hardest and the saddest” for “most Americans’ lives,” describing the upcoming grim period of the coronvirus pandemic in the United States as a “Pearl Harbor moment” and a “9/11 moment.”
“I want Americans to understand that as hard as this week is going to be, there is a light at the end of the tunnel,” Vice Admiral Jerome Adams said on “Fox News Sunday.”
-Dr. Jerome Adams
Officials are warning the next two weeks will be crucial in the fight to stop the spread of the virus. Early Sunday, the nationwide death toll had gone up to at least 8,503 people, with at least 312,245 infected, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
