As the U.S. death toll from the COVID-19 disease surges over 6,000, Maryland’s governor has told CBS News he expects the region around the nation’s capital to become “the next hot spot” in a couple weeks. Governor Larry Hogan compares the pandemic to a hurricane “hitting all 50 states, and it keeps coming every day, and it keeps intensifying and getting worse.”
President Trump’s COVID-19 task force coordinator, Dr. Deborah Birx, says officials are worried current social-distancing guidelines still aren’t being taken seriously enough by many Americans to keep the country’s death toll at or below 100,000.
Many Americans are already under stay-at-home orders imposed by their governors. The president has left the onus on state leaders to impose such measures, but as the White House strategy evolves, chief epidemiologist Dr. Anthony Fauci was asked whether he felt a nationwide lockdown would help.
“If you look at what’s going on in this country, I just don’t understand why we’re not doing that,” he said.
Detailed information from the CDC on coronavirus treatment and prevention.
