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Wednesday marked a new deadliest day for the US with 1,922 coronavirus-related deaths.
And White House officials are developing plans for reopening the country and a return to normalcy as early as May.
On Wednesday President Trump tweeted “flattening of the curve” as a new model on the pandemic in the US is forecasting thousands fewer deaths than what was predicted just days ago.
And during a phone conversation with state and local leaders Trump mentioned he was working on reopening the economy as “quickly as possible.”
But the top doctors on the government’s coronavirus task force are being much more cautious, warning a return to normalcy won’t happen so quickly.
The nation’s top infectious disease expert says restrictions and guidelines shouldn’t be lifted prematurely.
But he says if restrictions and guidelines are successful by the end of April we can at least “plan what a reentry into normality would look like.”
Posted – 4.9.20