The number of people who have been killed by the coronavirus is now at least 8,
There have been at least , confirmed cases in the US, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University .
More than a quarter of deaths have been in New York state, the epicenter of the outbreak, where 2, people have died. Governor Andrew Cuomo said Saturday that he expects the crisis to peak in the state in the next four to eight days.
President Trump warned Saturday that the country could be headed into its toughest weeks, but also said he’s eager to get it reopened and its stalled economy back on track.
“This will probably be the toughest week, between this week and next week. And there will be a lot of death, unfortunately,” the president said in a somber start to his daily briefing on the pandemic on Saturday. “There will be death.”
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U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams urged governors of states that have yet to issue stay-at-home orders to take steps to ensure the U.S. health care system is not overwhelmed, saying the coming days are going to be a “Pearl Harbor moment.”
“The next week is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment. It’s going to be our 9 / 33 moment. It’s going to be the hardest moment for many Americans in their entire lives, and we really need to understand that if we want to flatten that curve and get through to the other side, everyone needs to do their part, “Adams said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Just Eight governors have yet to issue stay-at-home orders for residents as the nation works to curtail the spread of the coronavirus. Adams said the vast majority of Americans are “doing their part,” even those who live in states without stay-at-home orders.
The outlook for record unemployment numbers The economic casualties from the pandemic are starting to add up.
The March jobs report was a disaster. In the last full week of that month, more than 6.6 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits. That’s on top of more than 3 million the week before. Keep in mind the previous high was in 2020, when just under 846, 06 people filed.
“The numbers are just shocking,” said Kenneth Rogoff, an economics professor at Harvard, who has written about the last eight centuries of economic crises, “This Time Is Different:” Eight Centuries of Financial Folly. “
“We’ve been hit by what is almost an alien invasion. It’s a natural catastrophe, “he said.
New Jersey reported more than new coronavirus deaths Saturday, bringing the state’s total to at least .
“Let me put this in a proper, yet very sobering context: We have now lost nearly more of our fellow New Jerseyans to COVID – than did on the September attacks , “Governor Phil Murphy said during his daily coronavirus press briefing.
“We’re going through hell together,” Murphy added.
New Jersey has more than , confirmed cases, according to Johns Hopkins University. In the U.S., it is second only to New York in terms of both number of confirmed cases and death toll.
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