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Fauci urged states that don't have that capability to go very slowly. "You can't just leap over things and get into a situation where you're really tempting a rebound. That's the thing I get concerned about," he said.
Word of the drug came as the U.S. government reported that American economic output is shriveling in the biggest and fastest collapse since the Great Depression.
Besides being asked to provide updates on the spread of the virus and best practices for combating it, the doctors find themselves drawn into Trump's efforts to provide a positive take on his handling of the pandemic.
Trump has attacked, sidelined, or even fired members of his own administration for making comments based on scientific facts and hard evidence.
Under the Constitution, public health and safety is primarily the domain of state and local officials and it was not clear what, if any, authorities Trump could use to overrule their decisions.
Social restrictions aimed at stopping the spread of the coronavirus could have saved lives if they'd been started earlier, said the nation's top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci. Trump now wants him fired.