Trump is launching a task force to reopen the country 'as soon as possible.' One expert says that could end up keeping us in our homes even longer.

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• "I want to get it open as soon as possible," President Donald Trump said Friday, announcing the creation of a task force aimed at getting the country back to business as usual.
• The announcement came the same day it was announced that 2,000 people had died of COVID-19 in the US in the last 24 hours, a new record.
• Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, told Business Insider that the United States could loosen social-distancing measures in two months, but only if it ramps up testing.
• Los Angeles County health officials said Friday that prematurely lifting its stay-at-home order would cause nearly every resident to become infected by August.
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US President Donald Trump is creating a task force dedicated to "opening our country," he said Friday, the same day officials announced that more than 2,000 people in the country had died from COVID-19 in the previous 24 hours, a new record.

More than 18,500 people have now died in the US as a result of the pandemic, and the delayed response to the spread of the novel coronavirus, with over 500,000 confirmed cases of the virus.

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