California is now on lockdown after Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered the state’s residents to stay home, except for essential activities. They are the most sweeping measures in the United States so far, as coronavirus cases in the United States move past 14,000.

These interventions are a recognition that the crisis in the United States is still growing. Yet a new poll finds that a majority of Americans — 55 percent — approve of Trump’s handling of the crisis.

Elsewhere, Italy now has reached a grim marker: The most coronavirus deaths outside of China, with more than 3,400, as the crisis rages in Europe. For its part, China says it went for the second day…