President Trump announced that his administration will extend social distancing guidelines until April 30 in an effort to stop the spread of coronavirus, which has now infected more than 130,000 Americans and killed nearly 2,500, Axios reports.

Said Trump: “The modeling estimates that the peak in death rate is likely to hit in two weeks. So, I’ll say it again, the peak — the highest point of death rates, remember this — is likely to hit in two weeks. Nothing would be worse than declaring victory before the victory is won. That would be the greatest loss of all.”

He later told reporters his desire to end social distancing on Easter  Sunday was only “aspirational.”

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said President Trump’s floating of a possible quarantine of New York “really panicked people,” Axios reports.

He suggested many likely fled the New York area — possibly spreading the virus further.

Said Cuomo: “People are so on edge. I mean, it really panicked people. They were going to leave the city last night. So, you need to manage that fear and panic.”

“Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo is no longer singling out motorists from New York for restricted access to her state,” Politico reports.

“Instead, she has broadened the restrictions to include all 50 states.”

The Washington Post is tracking deaths from the coronavirus pandemic in near real time.

Dr. Anthony Fauci projected “millions” of coronavirus cases and “100,000 to 200,000” deaths in the United States, the AP reports.

Associated Press: “The billions of tax dollars headed for hospitals and states as part of the $2.2 trillion coronavirus response bill won’t fix the problem facing doctors and nurses: a critical shortage of protective gowns, gloves and masks. The problem isn’t a lack of money, experts say. It’s that there’s not enough of those supplies available to buy. What’s more, the crisis has revealed a fragmented procurement system now descending into chaos just as demand soars.”

“The White House coronavirus response coordinator said Sunday that when it comes to procuring medical equipment for the coronavirus pandemic, the federal government is urging other states to emulate New York,” Politico reports.

Said Dr. Deborah Birx: “We are asking every single governor and every single mayor to prepare like New York is preparing now.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNN that about 56% of the country’s new infections are coming from the New York City area.

Michael Osterholm and Mark Olshaker: “Our leaders need to begin by stating a number of hard truths about our situation. The first is that no matter what we do at this stage, numerous hospitals in the United States will be overrun. Many people, including health care workers, will get sick and some will die. And the economy will tank. It’s too late to change any of this now.”

“The second hard truth is that at this stage, any public health response that counts on widespread testing in the United States is doomed to fail. No one planned on the whole world experiencing a health conflagration of this magnitude at once, with the need to test many millions of people at the same time. Political leaders and talking heads should stop proffering the widespread-testing option; it simply won’t be available.”

“A third hard truth is that shortages of personal protective equipment — particularly N-95 masks — for health care workers will only get worse in the United States as global need continues to rise precipitously. There is no point holding out the false hope that the Defense Production Act will save the residents of the United States. Not enough manufacturing activities can be converted to produce masks in a matter of weeks.”

Speaker Nancy Pelosi told CNN that President Trump’s delay and denial in responding to the coronavirus pandemic has had “deadly” consequences for Americans. 

Said Pelosi: “His denial at the beginning was deadly, his delaying of getting equipment … to where it is needed is deadly, and now the best thing would be to do is to prevent more loss of life, rather than open things up so that, because we just don’t know.”

She added: “As the President fiddles, people are dying.”

“The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Florida is doubling every three days, putting the state on a trajectory to see tens of thousands of infections in the coming weeks,” a Tampa Bay Times analysis shows.

“Florida remains one of the few states with a large outbreak not to issue a statewide order to keep residents at home. Several counties across the state, including Hillsborough and Pinellas, issued ‘safer at home’ orders in the last week.”

President Trump tweeted Saturday night that he has asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to issue a “strong Travel Advisory” but that a quarantine on the New York region “will not be necessary,” the Washington Post reports.

New York Times: “He had offered no details about how his administration would enforce a ban on the movements in or out of the three northeastern states. However, he said the restrictions would not prevent truckers from making deliveries into the area or traveling through, and would not affect trade with the three states ‘in any way.'”

Confirmed U.S. coronavirus-related deaths doubled in two days, hitting 2,000 on Saturday evening, based on reporting from state health departments, at AP reports.

“In at least 10 government reports from 2003 to 2015, federal officials predicted the United States would experience a critical lack of ventilators and other lifesaving medical supplies if it faced a viral outbreak like the one currently sweeping the country,” CNN reports.

“The drumbeat of warnings undermines President Trump’s claim last week that ‘nobody in their wildest dreams‘ could have imagined the demand for ventilators that now exists.”

“With much of the world on lockdown, the coronavirus pandemic has chipped away at individual liberties everywhere, the Wall Street Journal reports.

“In more places, however, it is also being used as an excuse to weaken democratic institutions and oversight—an authoritarian slide that could endure once the current health emergency subsides.”