White House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said that extended stay-at-home orders could end up causing ‘irreparable damage’ in certain parts of the country if they do not open soon.
Fauci was speaking on CNBC‘s ‘Halftime Report’ on Friday when he made the comments, stressing that the country still needed to take ‘very significant precautions’.
‘I don’t want people to think that any of us feel that staying locked down for a prolonged period of time is the way to go,’ the doctor said.
‘We can’t stay locked down for such a considerable period of time that you might do irreparable damage and have unintended consequences including consequences for health. And it’s for that reason why the guidelines are being put forth so that the states and the cities can start to reenter and reopen.’
While Fauci acknowledged that stringent measures needed to be taken when coronavirus cases were exploding in the U.S., certain parts could start opening up.
‘Now is the time, depending upon where you are and what your situation is, to begin to seriously look at reopening the economy, reopening the country to try to get back to some degree of normal,’ he continued.
Matthew Wright – Daily Mail – May 24, 2020.
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