President Donald Trump is extending the voluntary national shutdown for a month as sickness and death from the coronavirus pandemic rises in the U.S.
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that the White House would be extending its social distancing guidelines through April 30 – a month longer than an initial 15-day timeline when they were implemented on March 16.
Trump said Sunday that the White House task force would be sharing further data and finalized plans on Tuesday, and that he expects “we will be well on our way to recovery" by June 1. Trump's own health experts, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Dr. Deborah Birx, who leads the coronavirus task force, brushed off the president's Easter deadline as a"flexible" one.
When asked by USA TODAY on Sunday whether floating Easter as a possible date to lift the social-distancing restrictions was a mistake, Trump dismissed his previous deadline as"an aspiration."
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