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SFGATE: Trump touts unproven drug, blocks Fauci from question about it

Trump touts unproven drug, blocks Fauci from question about it
Published on April 06, 2020 at 06:47AM by Isaac Stanley-Becker, Aaron Gregg and William Booth, The Washington Post

WASHINGTON - Americans are being advised to steel themselves for one of the most agonizing weeks in living memory as President Donald Trump and his advisers predict that parts of the country are nearing a peak of cases of covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

The president at Sunday's White House coronavirus task force briefing hailed numbers from New York showing a one-day decline in deaths while warning that New York and New Jersey, have "really become a very hot zone."

Still, Trump, along with Vice President Mike Pence, projected confidence not matched by the White House's medical advisers.

"We're starting to see light at the end of the tunnel," Trump said Sunday, even as Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious diseases expert, hedged earlier in the day, saying, "I will not say we have it under control. . . . We are struggling to get it under control."

Fauci, when asked if dire predictions were at odds with the promise of light at the tunnel's end, said a peak suggests a possible turning point in the path of the virus but "doesn't take away from the fact that tomorrow or the next day is going to look really bad."

The dead in the United States already number more than 9,500, triple the toll of the terrorist attacks that brought the nation low on Sept. 11, 2001. U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams reached back further to find an analogue for the sense of national alarm as the country surpassed 333,000 known cases. He said the coming days could bring catastrophe comparable to the attack that drew the U.S. into the Second World War, in 1941.

"This is going to be the hardest and saddest week of most Americans' lives, quite frankly," the surgeon general said in a Sunday appearance on Fox News. "This is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9/11 moment, only it's not going to be localized. It's...

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