The Trump administration must issue a five-week lockdown on all non-essential travel to help contain the pandemic spread of SARS-CoV-2 and limit the disability and death caused by COVID-19 and the lack of vital medical equipment needed to manage it.

The rate of infection is increasingly dramatically and exponential growth will arrive in the coming days leading to millions of infections and a multitude of deaths in weeks if aggressive action is not taken by U.S. leadership.

Some hospitals are already being overwhelmed and personnel are facing dangerous supply shortages of basic PPE leading to occupational exposures of large amounts of viral inoculum. Globally, physicians and healthcare personnel have already succumbed to occupational transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and subsequent COVID-19.