Thread by @DrDenaGrayson

🚨BREAKING: Good news on #Easter! New #coronavirus cases per day in the US *appear to have peaked*.

Lockdowns and #PhysicalDistancing are finally paying off.

@realDonaldTrump is pushing to reopen, but if we let our foot off the brake too soon, #COVID19 cases will explode again.

While new #coronavirus cases per day appear to have peaked, our cumulative total number of cases has soared to nearly 560,000, exceeding all other nations (#China NOT accurate).

Sadly, we are *MASSIVELY undercounting* due Trump's FAILURE to roll out adequate #COVID19 testing.🤬

As I've warned, even though new #coronavirus cases per day *appear* to have peaked, the daily death toll will *keep rising*, because it takes several weeks for #COVID19 patients to succumb after diagnosis.

Now that new cases have peaked, new deaths/day should peak in ~1-2 weeks.

Total reported #COVID19 deaths in the US is ~22,000, higher than #Spain or #Italy. No one knows how many deaths #China had.

Sadly, the *real death toll* is higher: MANY #coronavirus deaths have not been recorded, in part because Trump does NOT want the TRUTH known🤬

#coverup

#NY has the highest #COVID19 daily death toll (outside #China), but the curve is flattening now that new #coronavirus cases have peaked.🙏🏼

We will have similar trends as #Spain (Madrid/Catalonia) and #Italy (Lombardy), where daily deaths remain high well AFTER new cases fell.😰

Total #COVID19 deaths in #NY will soon pass #Italy. Deaths in NJ and MI also continue to rise, along with LA, CA, and FL.

Even though new #coronavirus cases/day have flattened, deaths will continue to rise for weeks.

And the *actual* death toll is even higher than reported.😰

Although Trump is trying to claim victory, there is NOTHING victorious about tens of thousands of Americans dying.

Worse, many thousands of deaths could have been prevented with a rapid rollout of widespread #coronavirus testing and a nationwide #lockdown that *never* happened.