The US Covid-19 pandemic looks to get much worse before President Donald Trump leaves office in January. | Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

The president of the United States is silent on Covid-19 as the pandemic reaches a new crisis point.

While election night unfurled into election week, America’s Covid-19 pandemic was reaching its most critical stage yet.

The United States is now facing a record number of coronavirus cases (averaging 119,000 every day for the last seven days, according to the Covid Tracking Project) and a record number of hospitalizations (nearly 62,000 as of November 10). About 1,350 deaths were reported on Tuesday, the highest total since mid-August.

And there’s only so much that can be done in the last two months of President Donald Trump’s term to change that trajectory.

Covid Tracking Project

Trump had not held a public