Trump Abandons Easter Virus Goal and Steels Americans for Deaths
- President heeds Fauci, Birx advice to extend social distancing
- ‘They didn’t like the idea’ of Easter re-opening, Trump says
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President Donald Trump abruptly abandoned his ambition to return American life to normal by Easter, heeding advice from the government’s top doctors that re-opening the U.S. economy in two weeks risks greater death as the coronavirus outbreak accelerates.