“This is going to be the hardest and the saddest week of most Americans’ lives, quite frankly,” U.S. Surgeon General, Jerome Adams said during an interview on “Fox News Sunday” with host Chris Wallace. “This is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9/11 moment, only it’s not going to be localized. It’s going to be happening all over the country. And I want America to understand that.”

“And so, I want Americans to understand that, as hard as this week is going to be, there is a light at the end of the tunnel if everyone does their part for the next 30 days,” he said.

“It’s why we put out these thirty days to stop the spread guidelines. These are essentially our national stay-at-home order,” Adams said. “And we’re working with governors to figure out their needs, their desires.”

“This is going to be a test of our resolve,” Adams said. “It’s going to be the test of our lives. But I am confident that we can come out on the other side, based on the data and based on what I know about the American people.”

As of Sunday, there were 331,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. and more than 9,400 had died, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.(see map below)

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