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March 24, 2020 The US "is not made for shutdown". So President Donald Trump signals his intention to reopen America "to business", to safeguard the economy even in the time of the coronavirus. During the press conference on Covid-19, the president indicated the need to gradually restart the country, because "we can die" even from an economic crisis and we need to find a balance. "Our public health experts, who are amazing, are studying the changes and the disease: we will use the data to recommend new protocols that allow local economies to cautiously resume their activity at the right time," said Trump assuring that "not it will be a matter of months. " He will decide next week, when the 15 days of social distancing requested from the whole country will expire. Meanwhile, over 40% of the population is in lockdown.

"If it were for the doctors, they would close the whole world," remarked the tycoon, in front of a semi-empty press room, after the news of a possible case of contagion among colleagues. Also absent is the immunologist Anthony Fauci, of the White House task force against coronavirus, who on more than one occasion has distanced himself from Trump. Fauci "does not agree" on the need to reopen the country, said the president, stating that the absence of the super virologist is simply due to another commitment. "America will soon be back on business," assured the commander-in-chief. "This is a medical problem. We will not allow it to turn into a long-term financial problem," he added, while acknowledging that the epidemic is set to widen. Contagions in the US have exceeded 40,000 and the deaths are over 500, or 100 more in a day. "Some parts of the nation have been severely impacted, others only marginally," noted Trump, citing Nebraska, Idaho and Iowa, for example. "Why should we close the whole country?". During the press conference, the president jokingly walked away from Deborah Birx, also from the task force, because he had a weekend fever. He then complimented the Federal Reserve on the extraordinary injection of liquidity and announced that first lady Melania had tested the coronavirus and found it negative.