“We can’t have the cure be worse than the problem,” Trump told reporters at a briefing, echoing a midnight Sunday tweet. The economic cost to individuals is just too great,” Larry Kudlow, Trump’s top economic adviser, said in an interview Monday on Fox News Channel. That is exactly the territory we’re hurtling towards,” Hilton told his viewers, describing the economic, social and human impact of the shutdown as an “even bigger crisis” than the virus. Trump, who for the last two weeks has largely allowed doctors to lead the administration’s response, already seemed to be shifting in that direction. He said states with large case loads could continue to enforce stricter measures, while other parts of the country return to work.

Source: The Standard March 24, 2020 02:37 UTC