WORST DEATH TOLL GLOBALLY IN 24-HOUR PERIOD

UNITED STATES ANNOUNCES SOARING 1-DAY TOLL OF 2000-

DONALD TRUMP RECOMMENDS ITS CITIZENS SHOULD DRESS FACE MASKS WHILE OUTSIDE

The United States recorded more than 25,000 deaths from COVID-19 according to the  University tracker, the worst 24-hour death toll globally since the pandemic began. With 2000 deaths counted a day according to the university's continuously updated figures, the total number of people who have died since the beginning of the pandemic in the United States. President Donald Trump has suggested Americans cover their faces with scarves or homemade cloth masks while going outside to check the spread of the coronavirus though he would not wear one himself. Medical people working to defend the lives of Americans. However, Donald Trump said he will not follow that advice, I just don't want to wear one myself, it's a recommendation. Somehow sitting in the Oval Office behind that beautiful Resolute Desk, the great Resolute Desk, the great Resolute Desk, I think wearing a face mask as I salute presidents, dictators, kings, queens, I don't know, I don't see it for myself.ing the US center for Disease Control and Prevention, Trump urged people to wear face coverings like scarves or homemade cloth masks and to keep medical-grade masks present for the health workers. Trump told reporters during a press briefing at the White House on Friday, the CDC is advising the use of non-medical cloth face covering as an additional voluntary public health measure. The CDC is recommending the use of medical-grade or surgical grade masks.

DONALD TRUMP WAS ALERTED EARLY, OFTEN: BEHIND HIS HALTING REACTION-

 President Trump remained slow to respond to the Top White House advisers, as well as experts deep in the cabinet departments and intelligence agencies all, sounded alarms and urged the aggressive movement to counter the threat from the coronavirus, detailed testing of the government's response found. The State Department's epidemiologist alerted early that the virus could develop into a pandemic. Peter Navarro, the president's top trade adviser, wrote a searing memo at the end of January saying that in a worst-case scenario, 30 percent of the population in the US would be contaminated with the virus, leading to the deaths on the order of a half a million American souls. In recent days, Trump has denied he saw the memo at the time. But they never got the chance to present the strategy to the president. An officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention went public with dire cautions too soon, sending stocks tumbling and irritating  Trump. It would be three more weeks before Trump advised aggressive social distancing guidelines, a time when the virus spread largely unimpeded and the task force was trying to avoid alarmist communications like the one that had angered the president.

EFFECT OF REDRAWING OFFICIAL GUIDELINES MAY BE LIMITED

While Global bodies have so far advised the use of masks by ordinary citizens only in cases when they are sick or coughing. Some in the Trump administration was reportedly uncomfortable with changing this. They called for the directive to apply only to the worst-hit areas. Others felt wearing masks would lead to people neglecting social distancing, which is still seen as the most effective measure. With experts feeling that Trump undercuts the CDC advisory by saying he would not wear one, it is unclear if the move will yield the desired impact.

NEW YORK STATE PLEADS FOR AID AS DEATH COUNT SOARS

 New York, the increasingly damaged epicenter of the nation's coronavirus outbreak, on Friday announced its highest number of deaths in a single day, prompting state officials to beg the rest of the United States for help and to approve an emergency order designed to stave off medical catastrophe. Despite the glimmer of hope, the new figures were a stark reminder of the gale-force strength of the disaster that is scaring New York, where more than 102,000 people almost as many as in Italy and Spain, the hardest-hit European countries have now trial positive for the virus. The circumstances, as it has been for weeks, were particularly dire in New York City, where some hospitals have announced running out of body bags and others have begun to scheme for the unthinkable prospect of rationing care. It is strong to pull fully into words what we are all grappling with as we navigate our way through this pandemic.