Officials are ramping up warnings to younger Americans about the coronavirus. Young people can more easily spread the virus without having symptoms — and new evidence shows the potential for some younger people to fall seriously ill.
"I think my earlier comments are to be calm," he told reporters."I mean, I do want people to be calm, because we're going to win this, and it's just a question of time, and I want it to go quickly."But he also said people should follow public health experts' current guidance for social distancing and need to take it seriously.
"We don't want [young people] gathering, and I see they do gather, including on beaches, including in restaurants — young people," Trump said."They're feeling invincible ... but they don't realize that they can be carrying lots of bad things home to grandmother and grandfather and even their parents. So we want them to heed the advice. We mean the advice. And I think it's getting through.
Trump's messaging has shifted in recent days. At a Feb. 26 news conference, Trump said,"This is a flu. This is like a flu." At a rally in South Carolina, he called Democratic criticism of his coronavirus response a"hoax." And this month, Trump told Fox News,"We have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better, just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work.
"I think those kinds of statements have a chilling effect on the people who are working in the U.S. government departments and agencies who are trying at CDC, at FDA, at NIH ... to actually help stop the spread of the disease," Beth Cameron, who ran the National Security Council's pandemic response team under President Obama,
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