It's Monday, March 30, 2020, and the president is canceling his Easter plans.

I'm Sean Robbins for him, and this is your coronavirus update from today's Plaint.

President Trump announced on Sunday that Americans should continue to avoid gathering in groups

of 10 or more for at least another month and maybe until June.

That means avoid the office, avoid friends, avoid bars and restaurants and traveling.

It is a big reversal of his earlier assessment that the country would be back in action

by Easter.

That reversal came after Trump's medical advisors warned him that as many as 200,000 Americans

could die as a result of this coronavirus, with millions potentially getting infected.

This morning, Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, told

the Today Show that those numbers were optimistic that if the United States does things perfectly

from here on out, we might get in the range of 100,000 to 200,000 deaths.

The latest numbers we have are just over 2,500 deaths in the United States and almost

150,000 confirmed cases.

It was just on Thursday that I told you the United States had crossed the 1,000 death benchmark

to give you an idea of how quickly the numbers are climbing.

The numbers might not be climbing as fast as they were in Seattle.

Remember Seattle where this was just so bad a few weeks ago?

They think that containment strategies are starting to work there.

People are staying home, hospitals aren't overwhelmed, and the numbers suggest the spread

of the virus has slowed.

I don't know if any of the backstroke boys live in Seattle, but there's a video of them

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