President Trump said more oil producers are 'getting close to a deal' to try to stabilize prices as demand for energy plummets amid the global pandemic.
who may have been exposed to someone with the coronavirus, including having temperatures taken before work, wearing face masks at all times and practicing social distancing as much as their duties allow." in the COVID-19 pandemic, officials say that efforts to reduce the amount of time that people spend with those outside their immediate households — social distancing — are working.
"That is going in the right direction," he said."That means that what we are doing is working. Therefore we need to continue to do it. I know I sound like a broken record. That's good. I want to sound like a broken record. Let's just keep doing it." Trump has said he is eager for the country to return to a degree of normalcy"soon" and has said he will take recommendations from medical experts to determine exactly when to lift federal social distancing guidelines that have kept schools closed and many people away from work."We're going to follow the data," Vice President Mike Pence said on Thursday of potential plans to try to re-normalize.
"I don't think there are going to be benchmarks that are going to be consistent form one to the other," he said.
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