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US expert Fauci: ‘now is no time to back off’

US expert Fauci: ‘now is no time to back off’

The top US infectious disease expert warned on Friday that even though hard-hit spots like New York are showing positive results in the battle against coronavirus, it is too early to relax restrictions on Americans.
The warning from Dr. Anthony Fauci came as the Trump administration’s top economic officials said on Thursday they believe the US economy could start to reopen for normal business in May, despite health experts’ urging for continued social distancing measures to defeat the coronavirus.

President Donald Trump, seeking re-election on November 3, wants to get the economy going as soon as possible.

“Hopefully we’re going to be opening up … very, very, very, very soon, I hope,” he said on Thursday at the White House coronavirus briefing.

Fauci, however, warned against relaxing restrictions too soon.

“What we’re seeing right now is favourable signs,” Fauci said in an interview on CNN, citing progress in hard-hit New York. But he added, “the one thing you don’t want to do is you don’t want to get out there prematurely and then wind up back in the same situation.”

With many Americans celebrating the Easter holiday on Sunday, Fauci said it was important to keep social distancing measures in place.

“Now is no time to back off,” he said.

“Obviously we’re looking for the kinds of things that would indicate that we can go forward in a gradual way to essentially reopen the country to a more normal way,” Fauci said, but that depends on a number of factors.

House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi also warned Trump against trying to get back to normal prematurely.

“I would hope that the scientific community would weigh in and say, ‘You can’t do this, it is only going to make matters worse if you go out too soon,’” Pelosi said in an interview with Politico late on Thursday.
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