Task force urges millennials to social distance after Trump packed them in for rally
by Katherine Doyle, White House Correspondent |
| June 26, 2020 05:24 PM
The White House coronavirus task force urged millennials to abide by social distancing guidelines just days after President Trump delivered remarks to an estimated 3,000 young people tightly packed into a megachurch in Phoenix, Arizona.
Publicly reunited for the first time in more than eight weeks for a briefing at the Department for Health and Human Services on Friday, coronavirus task force members, led by Vice President Mike Pence, stressed the need to control cases that are "rising precipitously" in Sun Belt states.
"There are 16 states with rising cases and rising percentages," Pence said. "Those are the ones we are paying attention to." Cases have reached their highest levels since April.
"About half of the new cases reported this week are people under the age of 35," he said. "We still have work to do. ... Now is the time for everybody to continue to do their part."
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