The White House gave all reporters attending the briefing a coronavirus test on Thursday as a precaution after a member of the press corps awaited test results. Watch the briefing live shortly.
who may have been exposed to someone with the coronavirus, including having temperatures taken before work, wearing face masks at all times and practicing social distancing as much as their duties allow." in the COVID-19 pandemic, officials say that efforts to reduce the amount of physical time that people spend with those outside their immediate households, known as social distancing, are working.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, a member of the White House's coronavirus task force and a national expert on infectious diseases, on Thursday said projections for the death toll appear lower than originally projected.."It looks more like the 60,000 [deaths] than the 100,000 to 200,000. But having said that, we better be careful."
Trump has said he is eager for the country to return to a degree of normalcy"soon" and has said he will take recommendations from medical experts to determine exactly when to lift federal social distancing guidelines that have kept many people away from work and schools closed.
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