On CNN's "New Day" on Monday, Andy Slavitt, a former top Obama administration public health expert warned if New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, which have peaked, are excepted, US coronavirus infections are rising at a 20% rate.
"While we have been staying indoors we have been slowing down the spread. What we haven't done is get rid of the virus. The virus is still out there," Slavitt said.
Jarring signs that the pandemic will kill more people than the administration had hoped even several weeks ago, come early in a week that will end with new unemployment figures that could approach levels last seen in the 1930s Great Depression.
The data will bolster critics who say stay-at-home orders must be lifted to get Americans back to work -- a position the White House seems increasingly to be adopting.
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