US officials on Monday girded the country for a “peak death week” from the coronavirus pandemic as the accelerating American death toll closed the gap with Italy and Spain, the countries with the most fatalities to date. “It’s going to be the peak hospitalisation, peak ICU week and unfortunately, peak death week,” Admiral Brett Giroir, a physician and a member of the White House coronavirus task force, told ABC’s Good Morning America on Monday. Roughly twice as many people a day are dying in the US versus Spain and Italy, according to the latest data. The American death roll rose by 1,144 on Sunday, pushing the total to 9,573. Despite the grim warnings, at least one model offered hope that the death rate was slowing.

Source: The Telegraph April 06, 2020 21:54 UTC