Pentagon deploys doctors, prepares to treat COVID patients, orders wearing of DIY masks as nation braces for ‘hardest and saddest week’

Published April 6, 2020 11:09am ET



‘HARDEST AND SADDEST WEEK’: Surgeon General Jerome Adams delivered a somber warning on Fox News yesterday. “This is going to be the hardest and saddest week of most Americans’ lives,” he said. “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.”

“There’ll be a lot of death,” President Trump said on Saturday but also said that he’s beginning to see light at the end of the tunnel. “I think we all know that we have to reach a certain point, and that point is going to be a horrific point in terms of death, but it’s also a point at which things are going to start changing,” he said yesterday. “We’re getting very close to that level right now. And the next week and a half, two weeks, are going to be — I think they’re going to be very difficult.”

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