Indiana Republican Rep. Trey Hollingsworth emphasized Tuesday that the best decision for a majority of Americans is 'to get Americans back to work, to get Americans back to their businesses.'
President Donald Trump had suggested May 1 as a possible date for at least beginning the process of restarting large segments of the economy.
However, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government's top infectious disease expert, said Tuesday that the U.S. is probably not going to be ready to reopen the economy on that proposed timeline. Fauci told the Associated Press that the May 1 date is “a bit overly optimistic” for certain areas of the country. Trump declared a national emergency on March 13, and two days later, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised Americans to avoid gatherings of 50 people to limit the spread of the virus. Over the next three weeks, restrictions tightened, the numbers of infections and deaths from the disease soared, and more than 15 million Americans lost their jobs.
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