Donald Trump Extends Coronavirus Social Distancing Guidelines Past 15 Days Until End of April

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Donald Trump is extending social distancing guidelines all the way through April 30, mere days after proclaiming that the country would reopen by Easter.

Now, Trump is hopeful the country could be back to normal by June 1.

“The better you do, the faster this whole nightmare will end,” Trump said during a news conference at the White House on Sunday.

He also acknowledged that the COVID-19 pandemic has not slowed and said he saw models showing that the death rate’s peak will not hit until two weeks from now.

“We can expect that by June 1st, we will be well on our way to recovery, we think by June 1st. A lot of great things will be happening,” he said. “I want our life back.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, recently predicted on CNN there could be at least 100,000 deaths in the U.S. due to the virus.

“We feel that the mitigation that we’re doing right now is having an effect. It’s very difficult to quantitate it because you have two dynamic things going on at the same time,” Fauci said in the conference, reports The Hill. “You have the virus going up, and you have the mitigation trying to push it down.”

Well, clearly we’re going to need to get used to this self-isolation thing for a long while.