COVID-19: Pearl Harbor—or War of the Worlds?

U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington on April 3, 2020. Alex Brandon/AP Photo

Commentary

U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams warned that this week of mounting death from the novel coronavirus could be ‘our Pearl Harbor moment.’ He was referring, of course, to the surprise 1941 Japanese attack on the U.S. Navy base in Honolulu, which pulled the nation into World War II.