Trump Says Coronavirus Remedy Can’t ‘Be Worse Than the Downside Itself’

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Trump Says Coronavirus Remedy Can’t ‘Be Worse Than the Downside Itself’

President Trump on Sunday evening stated that the federal government would reassess the really helpful interval for preserving companies shut and t


President Trump on Sunday evening stated that the federal government would reassess the really helpful interval for preserving companies shut and thousands and thousands of employees at dwelling after this week, amid thousands and thousands of job losses brought on by the efforts to comprise the unfold of the novel coronavirus.

“WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF,” Mr. Trump tweeted in all capital letters shortly earlier than midnight. “AT THE END OF THE 15 DAY PERIOD, WE WILL MAKE A DECISION AS TO WHICH WAY WE WANT TO GO!”

Officers have stated that the preliminary 15-day interval for social distancing — limiting shut contact between folks by banning gatherings, closing colleges and workplaces, encouraging distant work and urging folks to take care of a six-foot distance from each other — is significant to slowing the unfold of the virus, for which greater than 30,000 folks in the USA have examined optimistic. The 15-day interval would finish Monday.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, an infectious illnesses skilled and a member of the White Home coronavirus activity power, has stated in interviews that he believed that it could take a number of extra weeks till folks can begin going about their lives in a extra regular trend. Different infectious illness specialists recommend even harsher measures than social distancing are required to really beat again the outbreaks in the USA.

While some business owners are eager to end the more draconian measures that have been put in place, others would rather endure the pain at once rather than face repeated, disruptive orders to stop activities.

Mr. Trump’s tweet cast doubt on his confidence in the path to fighting the virus that he so reluctantly approved. For two months he largely dismissed the warnings that the virus would reach American shores, for fear of causing economic disruption, predicting that cases would go down from a handful to “zero” in a few days.

Only when the disruption came anyway, in the form of a historic stock market sell-off, was he convinced to act.

But there could be consequences to ending the measures too quickly. The recent rise of cases in Hong Kong, after there had been an easing of the spread of the virus, is something of an object lesson about how ending strict measures too soon can have dangerous consequences.

In a tweet on Monday morning, Thomas Bossert, the former homeland security adviser who for weeks has been vocal about the need for the U.S. government to take stricter measures, said, “Sadly, the numbers now suggest the U.S. is poised to take the lead in #coronavirus circumstances. It’s cheap to plan for the US to prime the listing of nations with essentially the most circumstances in roughly 1 week. This does NOT make social intervention futile. It makes it crucial!”

Regardless of the president chooses to do, there will likely be companies nonetheless fearful to reopen — and staff terrified of going to work — as new circumstances of individuals contaminated with the virus are nonetheless being identified by the hundreds every day.

And the president is dealing with potential pushback from the general public well being specialists in his administration.

After being sluggish to publicly react to the unfold of the virus, the Trump administration swung within the different path on the finish of February, entrusting the well being specialists whose counsel had not been heeded within the previous weeks and letting them assist set the insurance policies that a whole lot of thousands and thousands of individuals can be urged to comply with.





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