Trump Tells Americans to be Prepare, 100,000-240,000 Will Die from the Coronavirus

The U.S President Donald Trump told all Americans to prepare for an upcoming raise of coronavirus cases as the next two weeks would be “very, very painful two weeks.”.

“This could be a hell of a bad two weeks. This is going to be a very bad two, and maybe three weeks. This is going to be three weeks like we’ve never seen before,” Trump said at a White House on Tuesday. 

The White House officials estimated that the covid-19 death toll in the U.S. will upsurge to between 100,000 and 240,000, peaking over the next two weeks. Currently, according to  Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center compilation, the total cases across the world is at least 858,785 and 189,035 cases were reported in the U.S. with 76,049 confirmed alone in New York, while the fatality figure nationwide is at 1,550. 

“When you look at night, the kind of death that has been caused by this invisible enemy, it’s incredible.” Trump added.

New York has now become the new epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, even more confirmed cases than the very first emerged virus province, Wuhan. Trump pointed out New York “got a late start” in active the preventive efforts to tackle the virus spreading.

“This is going to be the roughest three weeks we’ve ever had in this country,” he said. “I wanted as few as a number of people to die as possible. And that’s all we’re working on.”

The death projections “are very sobering, and when you see 100,000 people, and that’s a minimum,” Trump said. “A hundred thousand is, according to modeling, a very low number.” The death toll would be even higher without any mitigation measures with some estimates as high as 2.2 million fatalities, Trump said on the White House press conference.

He as well emphasized that the coronavirus, “This is not the flu,”.