President Donald Trump said in an exclusive interview with ABC 'World News Tonight' Anchor and Managing Editor David Muir on Tuesday that 'it's possible there will be some' deaths as states roll back restrictions aimed at stopping the spread of the novel coronavirus, acknowledging
President Donald Trump said in an exclusive interview with ABC"World News Tonight" Anchor and Managing Editor David Muir on Tuesday that"it's possible there will be some" deaths as states roll back restrictions aimed at stopping the spread of the novel coronavirus, acknowledging that it was the choice the country faces to reopen and jumpstart the economy.
In addition to the president's acknowledgement directly to Muir that it's"possible there will be some" deaths as a cost of reopening the country, the president also acknowledged during his visit to Arizona that there will be some who are"affected badly" by the decision. The nation's foremost infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said in an interview with CNN on Monday that the decision to reopen states across the country amounted to balancing “how many deaths and how much suffering are you willing to accept to get back to what you want to be, some form of normality, sooner rather than later."'
MORE: In 1st major trip in months, President Trump to travel to battleground state Arizona to observe mask production The president’s optimistic outlook stands in contrast to the consensus of opinion among public health experts in warning that the virus will continue to pose a major risk until the time that there is effective treatment and vaccination.
Asked by Muir if"right now," any American worker nervous about returning to work who wants to get tested could get access to an antibody test, Trump said yes.The president was dismissive of two new analyses that offered cautionary tales against a premature reopening, one from Johns Hopkins University that warned the daily death rate could nearly double by June and a model from the University of Washington model that warned the U.S. death toll could increase to nearly 135,000 by Aug. 4.
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