Unless Americans continue to dramatically limit social interaction by staying home from work and isolating themselves, the number of infections will overwhelm the health care system, many health experts have warned.

The guidelines will categorize each county in the country as low-risk, medium-risk or high-risk, Trump said.

The President then accused journalists of writing fake news.

Trump described Inslee to Hannity as "a failed presidential candidate" who is "always complaining", adding that Inslee should do more to address the coronavirus outbreak in his state.

Q. But the president has set a 15-day period in which all Americans are being urged to drastically scale back their public activities.

Said Ingraham: "You get the sense that the media, they don't nearly - some of them don't want things to go back to normal in the United States".

After months of rosy predictions that the virus would go away on its own, and that life would be back to normal soon, Trump has flipped to claiming that he understood the severity of the pandemic from the start. You will still try and distance yourself. Trump has said that he would like to see the economy restarted by Easter, April 12.

In New York state has restricted nonessential business and gatherings.

'There is still a long battle ahead, but our efforts are already paying dividends, ' he wrote in the letter. Fischer told us that it's not uncommon for such cease-and-desist letters to be sent out during campaign seasons, though they don't often end in actual lawsuits. "We have to open up our country, I'm sorry". "We are quickly getting to the point where we will be able to get that data", Fauci said. "We'll see what happens, but they're fully expected numbers, at least". You know what I say?

Just a month ago, President Trump was predicting the US was days away from being "close to zero" coronavirus cases.

Whitmer tweeted in response that she had "asked repeatedly and respectfully for help", adding, "You said you stand with MI - prove it".

'We could go to certain states right now that have virtually no problem or a very small problem. "If we could test a lot more, we would have a much better idea of how distributed this virus is".

Recently, he spoke enthusiastically to aides about reopening the White House briefing room, which has languished under current press secretary Stephanie Grisham, and taking to the lectern himself, said one person familiar with the president's comments.

The governors' reaction revealed a striking disconnect between Trump and the state leaders closer to the front lines of a crisis that threatens to overwhelm US hospitals and claim thousands of lives.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) spoke first for the governors on the call as head of the National Governors Association.

But others were less enthusiastic.

Now, Cuomo (like Pritzker) is attacking Trump for encouraging states to compete against each other as they buy desperately needed ventilators, facemasks, gloves and personal protective equipment (PPE) for doctors and other healthcare workers.

NY state is seeking alternative methods to address ventilator shortages amid the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at a daily briefing Thursday.