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According to reports from Yahoo News, President Trump clarified the difference between the flu and the coronavirus.
During a White House press conference, Trump said that “a lot of people” had suggested the country should let coronavirus take its course, similar to the flu.
“Ride it out, don’t do anything, just ride it out and think of it as the flu,” they said, according to the President, who followed up with “But it’s not the flu. It is vicious.”
“If we did nothing, if we just carried on with our life,” he said, “you would have seen people dying on airplanes, you would have seen people dying in hotel lobbies. You would have seen death all over.”
“So you say to yourself, ‘What is this all about?'”
President Trump has had the nation’s best interest, trying to keep the economy afloat. As of now, there are strict social-distancing guidelines that are to take place through April 30.
More from Yahoo News:
Projections that at least 100,000 people will have been killed by the coronavirus in the United States, even if social distancing measures are carried out, appear to have prompted a major shift in Trump’s outlook.
On Tuesday, he said that with no social distancing, the projections ran as high as 2.2 million deaths.
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