CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “Where [coronavirus] embers flare up, we must engage immediately, and that’s what we’re doing. This is the science-based approach, and it’s good with us. Working very hard on that. An extended lockdown would fail to target resources at the highest-risk populations, while inflicting massive economic pain, long-lasting damage on society and public health as a whole.
So there won’t be lockdowns, but we watch specific areas. We’re very careful and we’re putting out embers. We’re putting out flames… But Florida is going down very significantly. Texas and California are going down rather significantly.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | August 4, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 4, 2020