Hogan said cancer 'perhaps made me more intensely focused on trying to protect the health of everybody,' now that Maryland is threatened by the coronavirus.
"I do have a lot of empathy for people going through those kinds of things," Hogan said, adding that while his experience governing during the pandemic has differed greatly from his personal experience fighting cancer, there are parallels between the two."It perhaps made me more intensely focused on trying to protect the health of everybody. It probably didn't just impact my decisions on the coronavirus, but probably everything I do as a governor.
Hogan recently had his five-year checkup and he remains cancer-free."When the pandemic's over, I can go back and hug some people," he said. But he still has to deal with a climbing health crisis in his state. Despite the increase in cases, Hogan said Tuesday that he will not change the state's reopening plan now, but added that he would consider doing so in the future if rates of deaths, new infections and hospitalizations continue to rise,"But as soon as we start to see numbers that don't look good, it's going to cause us to take whatever actions that are necessary,".
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