The thing with the high deaths is the period of time it takes to pass from COVID. If you get it, it takes a few days for it to hit your system. Then once it does, it takes a bit for it to get to a life threatening stage for anyone who has complications from it. They get treated and if they eventually get thrown on a ventilator, they can sit on the machine for 10+ days. The deaths we're seeing Are patients exposed to the virus 2+ weeks ago. So these aren't people who woke up Monday and then died today.
Give it 3-4 weeks. Deaths will drop and Trump will get false confidence and put a plan in place for things to gradually reopen. Look at Cuomo in NY. He's already giving "cautious optimism" which I can see being full blown optimism by early May and by mid to late May he'll have NY businesses open with certain restrictions