特朗普总统表示，他打算在数周而不是数月内重新开放国家

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特朗普总统周一表示，他打算在数周而不是数月内重新开放国家

消息来源: AP NEWS


华盛顿（美联社）-随着冠状病毒病例的增加，唐纳德·特朗普总统表示，他希望在数周而不是数月内重新开放该国的业务，并声称没有证据表明持续的封锁可能导致比大流行本身更多的死亡人数。


特朗普在周一的简报会上对记者说：“我们无法根治问题。” “我们必须开放我们的国家，因为这(关闭边境)会引起一些问题，我认为这可能是更大的问题。”


卫生专家已经明确表示，除非美国人继续极大地限制社会互动-下班回家和自我隔离-否则感染数量将使医疗保健系统不堪重负，就像意大利部分地区那样，这将导致更多的死亡。 尽管最严重的疫情集中在该国某些地区，例如纽约，但专家警告说，这种高度传染性疾病肯定会传播。


Trump says he intends to reopen country in weeks, not months


WASHINGTON (AP) — As cases of coronavirus rise, President Donald Trump said that he wants to reopen the country for business in weeks, not months, and claimed, without evidence, that continued closures could result in more deaths than the pandemic itself.


“We can’t have the cure be worse than the problem,” Trump told reporters at a briefing Monday, echoing a midnight Sunday tweet. “We have to open our country because that causes problems that, in my opinion, could be far bigger problems.”


Health experts have made clear that unless Americans continue to dramatically limit social interaction — staying home from work and isolating themselves — the number of infections will overwhelm the health care system, as it has in parts of Italy, leading to many more deaths. While the worst outbreaks are concentrated in certain parts of the country, such as New York, experts warn that the highly infectious disease is certain to spread.



But with the economic impact now snapping into focus and millions of people out of work, businesses shuttered and the markets in free fall — all undermining Trump’s reelection message — the chorus of backlash is growing louder, with Trump appearing to side with them.


IMPACT ON THE ECONOMY:
– Stocks up over 5% amid building hopes for US virus stimulus
– Q&A: What did the Fed do Monday and who will it help?
– Virus chaos snarls farm workers as new season buds in Europe
“Life is fragile, and economies are fragile,” Trump said, insisting he could protect both.


While he acknowledged there were trade-offs — “there’s no question about that” — he claimed that, if closures stretch on for months, there would be “probably more death from that than anything that we’re talking about with respect to the virus.”


The comments were further evidence that Trump has grown impatient with the pandemic, even before it has reached its expected peak. In recent days, tensions have been rising between those who argue the country needs to get back up and running to prevent a deep economic depression and medical experts who warn that, unless more extreme action is taken, the human cost will be catastrophic.


“We can’t shut in the economy. 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. “The president is right. The cure can’t be worse than the disease, and we’re going to have to make some difficult trade-offs.”