On post-COVID-19 reopening, Trump weighs 'biggest

President Trump said Friday that determining when it will be safe to drop social distancing guidelines to stop the spread of the coronavirus is "the biggest decision I've ever had to make.”  

With hospitalization rates from COVID-19 falling in New York and California, but the overall number of cases still rising in the United States, Trump spent much of Friday’s briefing by the coronavirus task force addressing the question of when the country could expect to return to normal. While state governors hold the power to lift restrictions on that have crippled economic activity across the country, Trump framed the issue as his own burden.

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