“This will probably be the toughest week — between this week and next week,” President Trump said Saturday during his briefing at the White House.

“There will be a lot of death, unfortunately. But a lot less death than if this wasn’t done,” President said of the nationwide precautions underway. “But there will be death.”

On April 4th, the number of Americans infected topped 300,000. Trump said he’s deploying 1,000 medical military personnel to New York, the epicenter of the United States outbreak.

Dr. Deborah Birx said the modeling shows that the three major hotspots the country in New York, Detroit and Louisiana will peak in the next six or seven days.

“We will move heaven and Earth to safeguard our great American citizens,” Trump said. “We will continue to use every power, every authority, every single resource we’ve got to keep our people healthy, safe, secure and to get this thing over with.”

“We want to finish this war. We have to get back to work.”