Trump: We’ll Reopen When We Know We’re Healthy

CNBC reports:

President Donald Trump said on Friday that he will not reopen the economy “until we know this country is going to be healthy.” The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reportedly projected that lifting stay-at-home orders, school closures and social distancing after just 30 days would lead to an infection spike this summer, according to documents first reported by The New York Times.

When asked whether Trump had seen federal projections that the coronavirus could resurge if the 30-day shelter-in-place orders were lifted, he said he had not seen the projections. “We’re looking at a date, we hope we’ll be able to fulfill a certain date, but we’re not doing anything until we know this country is going to be healthy,” Trump said during a White House press briefing. “We don’t want to go back and start doing it over again, even though it would be in a smaller scale.”

#WATCH: President Trump says he thinks “we’re going to do both” when asked by a reporter if Americas should have to decide between staying healthy and going back to work.pic.twitter.com/gJv8zIPp3r

— Jennifer Franco (@jennfranconews) April 10, 2020

“We’re looking at a date,” Trump says about reopening the country. “But we’re not doing anything until we know this country is going to be healthy. We don’t want to go back and start doing it over again.” pic.twitter.com/rdYfJwEoyB

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) April 10, 2020

Trump: “We have to get our country open.”

Question: “Will you say, sir, what metrics you will use to make that decision?”

Trump: “The metric’s right here.” [Points to head] pic.twitter.com/YagUPtV5Nq

— The Hill (@thehill) April 10, 2020