U.S. president Donald Trump said at a White House press conference on March 31 that the United States is undergoing an unprecedented test. The peak of the epidemic is coming, and it is coming ferociously. "these two weeks could be very bad, it will be very bad two weeks, maybe three weeks, it will be three weeks that we have never seen before. He also stressed that abiding by the epidemic prevention guidelines is "a matter of life and death."

Deborah Birx, a member of the White House epidemic response team, presented a model for predicting the epidemic at the press conference. The model shows that in the case of management intervention on the epidemic, the number of deaths of COVID-19 in the United States may also reach 100000 to 240000, and if left uncontrolled, the number of deaths may reach 1.5 million to 2.2 million.

Trump said his previous phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin was about oil prices and discussed the issue of crude oil with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. If necessary, the Saudi and Russian discussions on oil prices will be joined in due course. Oil prices are similar to tax cuts, which are good for airlines and unrealistic for crude oil prices to hurt industry.

In addition, Trump said that the federal government still has ventilator inventory, and we have allocated ventilator supplies to a number of states. A number of hospitals will face a "war zone" state on the issue of COVID-19 epidemic.

However, according to CCTV news, New York Governor Cuomo said at a news conference on March 31 that New York had ordered 17000 ventilators from China at US $25000 each. But the state is expected to get only 2500 because California, Illinois and the federal government have all ordered the same ventilators. Cuomo also blamed the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Federal Emergency Management Agency) for snapping up ventilators to push up prices.