PBS News Hour | March 26, 2020
But that deadline contradicts the guidance of public health officials, who say the U.S. needs several more weeks, if not months, of social distancing to get control over this pandemic and avoid the worst-case scenario for the nation’s health care system. Trump’s words deliver “a highly dangerous message,” said Dr. Lawrence Gostin, who directs the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on National and Global Health and the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law.