Surgeon General Jerome Adams says 15 days is "likely not going to be enough" to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
His comments follow guidelines issued by the White House calling for "15 Days to Slow the Spread."
"Fifteen days is likely not going to be enough to get us all the way through," Adams said during an interview on NBC's "Today." "But we really need to lean into it now so that we can bend the curve in the next 15 days, and at that point we'll reassess."
The Trump administration issued new guidelines Monday for Americans to follow as coronavirus cases continue to surge in the United States.
The new federal guidance urges Americans for the next two weeks to avoid gatherings of more than 10 people, work or attend school from home when possible and abstain from eating or drinking at restaurants, bars, and food courts.
Vice President Mike Pence, charged with the U.S.'s response against the public health crisis, and administration officials "fully expect that we will be dealing with the coronavirus in the United States for months," and "according to some of our modeling, we could well be dealing with coronavirus cases in the United States well into July."
The virus, which started in Wuhan, China, has affected more than 210,000 people worldwide and killed more than 8,700. So far, cases have been reported in every U.S. state.
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