President Trump warned that the number of suicides could increase if he does not lift restrictions due to the coronavirus on daily life.
His administration is mulling whether to lift social distancing measures at the end of a 15-day period, and he has repeatedly said that the “cure should not be worse than the problem.”
At his regular coronavirus briefing on Monday evening, he spelled out his dilemma to reporters: “You have tremendous responsibility. We have jobs. We have … people get tremendous anxiety and depression, and you have suicides over things like this when you have terrible economies. You have death probably in far greater numbers than the numbers we are talking about with regard to the virus.
“So, we have a double obligation.”
He added that he was working on timelines for restrictions to be eased.
