Economics

Fresh Coronavirus Wave Won’t Require Shutdown, White House Says

Contingency Plans Being Made for Possible Second Virus Wave, Kudlow Says
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The U.S. won’t have to shut down its economy again if there’s a resurgence of the coronavirus outbreak as the nation starts to reopen, President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser said.

National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow said in an interview on Bloomberg Television that he’s been told by a member of the White House’s coronavirus task force he didn’t name that a second wave of the outbreak wouldn’t require a shutdown.