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 th