'They'll be fading out, because now the governors are doing it,' Trump said of his social distancing guidelines.
, once a central tenet of its coronavirus response and the focus of the administration's message, in the latest sign of the president's eagerness to revive the once booming economy upended by the coronavirus crisis. The Trump administration is under economic pressure to shift its strategy from battling the coronavirus to pressing ahead with a message of economic revival that he hopes will help secure his reelection in November.
But as April came to a close this week, Trump said he has no plans to extend the federal recommendations after they expire Thursday, even as his own task force coordinator"They'll be fading out, because now the governors are doing it," Trump said of the guidelines during a meeting with Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards on Wednesday.Despite the number of U.S.
While the president and his aides have suggested that some governors are ready to allow people to go back to work and reopen schools, his health experts have stressed that states need to meet the requirements of the new "Opening Up America Again" guidance.launched earlier this month, outlines three stages that stagger the end of social distancing based on a two-week period of"downward trajectory" of coronavirus cases.
Wendy Parmet, a Northeastern University law professor who specializes in health care and bioethics, said the expiration of the guidelines doesn't change much as states are already calling the shots on when to lift restrictions. But some people could read the president's decision not to renew social distancing rules as a declaration that the problem is over and public life can resume.
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