Surgeon general: Hard times ahead

“This is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9/11 moment,” Surgeon General Jerome Adams told Fox News Sunday. U.S. COVID-19 infections neared 340,000 with close to 9,700 deaths by Monday. Nearly 18,000 Americans have recovered from the disease. President Donald Trump said the country faces a painful two weeks but expressed hope the pandemic might turn a corner after that.

How are things in the hot spots? New York has the nation’s highest death toll at 4,100. The state saw a small dip in new fatalities over the weekend, but Gov. Andrew Cuomo said it was too soon to call it a trend. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said his state could run out of ventilators by the end of the week. A federal watchdog agency reported 3 out of 4 surveyed U.S. hospitals are treating confirmed or suspected COVID-19 patients.

Dig deeper: Read Marvin Olasky’s column about what the Bible teaches survivors of large-scale disasters.