Coming from the guy who says 200k are going to die from this in our country? Can leaders decide if they want to be optimistic or use scare tactics? It won't be eradicated in a couple of weeks - there will still be cases and deaths. It's that if they can ramp up production of the new faster tests (Abbott Labs said they can make 50K/day IIRC, not sure about others) and find/isolate those who have it, it will go a long way towards slowing it to the point where the infections won't overwhelm the hospital system and we can start resuscitating the economy. If the US averages 50 deaths a day per state across all 50 states (more in some states, less in others), over the next two weeks that's 35,000 deaths by Easter. Doesn't take long to add up. If you can only get COVID-19 once then an antibody test to detect those that have had it would be a huge help in determining who can go back to work. I know the jury is still out on that one though.