'Devastatingly worrisome': Dr. Deborah Birx decries scenes of protesters not practicing social distancing amid coronavirus

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'Devastatingly worrisome': Dr. Deborah Birx decries scenes of protesters not practicing social distancing amid coronavirus
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Dr. Deborah Birx warned that protesters who carry an infection home to their grandmother or grandfather would feel guilty for the rest of their lives.

task force coordinator, expressed concern Sunday about the lack of social distancing at protests and rallies against stay-at-home orders.

"Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace said that while more than half the states have started to reopen"in some way, shape or form," none of them have met the administration's benchmark of two-week declines. She added that the White House task force has asked every governor to post exactly where his or her state stood in terms of meeting of the criteria and where the virus was appearing,"because an educated community can really take action to understand how to protect themselves."record number of new cases

"I do know, in our state, and as we coordinate with our regional partners, most notably our neighbors, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, we have to make the call based on data and science," said Murphy, whose state has suffered the second-highest number of deaths from the coronavirus after New York. "We had far more people die yesterday in Maryland than we had protesters," Republican Gov. Larry Hogan told CNN on Sunday.

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