Modi is shutting down India for three weeks, 1.3B people to told to stay home. This is on the heels of Boris closing the U.K. similarly. All Trump’s happy talk is going to evaporate soon as the US outbreak dramatically escalates. There is little he can do anyway as it’s governors, mayors, and companies doing the shutting down. CA and NY already said no way.
Close it all down till at least July and pay everybody most of their income to sit tight. Loan companies cash to pay fixed costs at 0% and eventually forgive most of it. Only reopen when it’s ramped down and you can rapidly test, track, give people masks, and hopefully have a drug therapy in hand that can manage severe cases.