Surgeon General Jerome Adams: This will be ‘hardest and the saddest week of most Americans’ lives’

‘This is our Pearl Harbor moment’: Surgeon General Jerome Adams says coronavirus is defining moment for this generation, claiming this will be ‘the hardest and the saddest week of most Americans’ lives’ as death toll is expected to peak next Thursday

  • The U.S. Surgeon General said Sunday that the next two weeks will be the ‘hardest and saddest’ due to devastation from the coronavirus outbreak
  • ‘This is going to be the hardest and the saddest week of most Americans’ lives, quite frankly,’ Jerome Adams told Fox News Sunday
  • He also likened the coronavirus pandemic to Pearl Harbor and the September 11 terrorist attacks, claiming the outbreak will define this generation 
  • An analytical prediction shows that deaths and cases of coronavirus int he U.S. will peak on April 16, which is next Thursday
  • This assessment assumed that Americans comply with stay-at-home and lockdown recommendations and orders from federal and local governments 

Jerome Adams, the U.S. Surgeon General, said Sunday the next two weeks will be the ‘hardest and saddest’ of most Americans’ lives as the deaths from coronavirus are expected to peak next Thursday.

‘This is going to be the hardest and the saddest week of most Americans’ lives, quite frankly,’ Adams told Fox News Sunday.

‘This is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9/11 moment – only it’s not going to be localized, it’s going to be happening all over the country. And I want America to understand that,’ he continued in his warning to Americans.

He reiterated his point during an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday morning, claiming coronavirus will be the defining moment for this generation and ‘hardest moment for many Americans in their entire lives.’

According to a model created by the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, coronavirus will reach its peak on April 16 in the U.S.

Surgeon General Jerome Adams said Sunday that the next two weeks will be the ‘hardest and saddest of most Americans’ lives’ as coronavirus is expected to peak next Thursday

'This is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9/11 moment,' he told Fox News in claiming the coronavirus pandemic will be a defining moment for this generation

‘This is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9/11 moment,’ he told Fox News in claiming the coronavirus pandemic will be a defining moment for this generation

The peak, Adams said on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday morning, will likely be April 16 as long as Americans comply with stay-at-home orders and listen to recommendations from the White House task force and CDC – including new recommendations that everyone wear a mask when they are in public

The peak, Adams said on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday morning, will likely be April 16 as long as Americans comply with stay-at-home orders and listen to recommendations from the White House task force and CDC – including new recommendations that everyone wear a mask when they are in public

‘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 asserted to NBC’s Chuck Todd. ‘Ninety percent of Americans are doing their part, even in the states where they haven’t had a shelter in place. But if you can’t give us 30 days, governors, give us, give us a week, give us what you can, so that we don’t overwhelm our healthcare systems over this next week. And then let’s reassess at that point.’

‘We want everyone to understand you’ve got to be Rosie The Riveter you’ve got to do your part,’ he continued.

Adams was specifically calling responding to governors who have not yet issued stay-at-home or lockdown orders in their respective states yet.

Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota have no known lockdown orders in place – while Utah, Wyoming, Oklahoma and North Carolina do not have state-wide orders, but some counties and cities have issued their own.

Eight of the states are run by Republican governors – with North Carolina the only exception. 

The U.S. death toll surpassed 8,500 by Sunday morning and there are more than 312,000 confirmed cases – more than any other nation is reporting.

At the end of March, Donald Trump’s coronavirus task force extended national guidelines to prevent the spread of coronavirus, which includes not holding social gatherings with more than 10 people and only leaving the home for essential purposes, like for food or to seek medical attention.

Trump also predicted last month that the country would be back up and running like normal by Easter, which is April 12. But he very quickly walked back on that claim, admitting that the peak of deaths and cases would likely fall around Easter instead.



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