Surgeon general warns THIS WEEK 'is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment' “This is going to be the hardest and the saddest week of most Americans’ lives, quite frankly,” Jerome Adams said. Surgeon General Jerome Adams issued Sunday perhaps his most dire warning yet amid the coronavirus pandemic — predicting the disease’s toll on Americans in the coming week would amount to a nationalized version of historic tragedies such as the strike on Pearl Harbor and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Adams told “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace it was fitting that he was being interviewed on Palm Sunday, at the beginning of Christanity’s “Holy Week,” because “this is going to be the hardest and the saddest week of most Americans’ lives, quite frankly.” “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,” Adams said. The nation’s top doctor has made similarly somber proclamations at other moments during the ongoing pubic health crisis, telling NBC’s “Today” show two weeks ago: “I want America to understand, this week, it’s going to get bad.” But Adams’ remarks Sunday represented an escalated version of even his most ominous rhetoric, and they echoed other alarming statements from senior administration officials regarding the intensifying fight against the deadly outbreak in the United States. “This will be probably the toughest week, between this week and next week. And there will be a lot of death, unfortunately,” President Donald Trump told reporters Saturday at the White House coronavirus task force daily press briefing. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/05/surgeon-general-pearl-harbor-moment-165729