Coronavirus: Trump backs away from New York quarantine
Speaking to reporters earlier on Saturday about the situation in New York, Mr Trump said:"We'd like to see [it] quarantined because it's a hotspot... I'm thinking about that.""They're having problems down in Florida. A lot of New Yorkers are going down. We don't want that," he said.New York Governor Andrew Cuomo responded by saying that quarantining the state of New York would be"preposterous" and"anti-American".
"Then we would be Wuhan, China, and that wouldn't make any sense," he told CNN, adding that this would cause the stock market to crash in a way that would make it impossible for the US economy to"recover for months, if not years".He added later:"I don't know how that can be legally enforceable. And from a medical point of view, I don't know what you would be accomplishing.
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