The television personality warned the impact of the current lockdown orders in the U.S. may see 'more deaths across time than the actual virus will itself.'
He said:"And the poverty line is getting such that more and more people are gonna fall below that because the economy is crashing around us. And they're doing that because people are dying from the coronavirus...I get that."
He claimed people who suffer from loneliness are 29 percent more likely to have coronary artery disease, 32 percent more likely to have strokes or die and 40 percent more likely to have dementia if they're in that age group. Last Friday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who is also a member of the White House COVID-19 task force, warned that"Now is no time to back off," mitigation measures in an interview with"What we're seeing right now is favorable signs.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo responded to Trump's comment last week saying:"If he [Trump] ordered me to reopen in a way that would endanger the public health of the people of my state, I wouldn't do it."
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