WH testing czar: Lockdowns in hotspots "should be on the table"

The Trump administration’s coronavirus testing coordinator Adm. Brett Giroir said on ABC’s “This Week” that “everything” — including the “stringent lockdowns” that many governors implemented in March and April — should be “on the table” in states where new infections are skyrocketing…

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Giroir stressed that every American should wear a mask when they go out in public, and that states where cases are surging need to close restaurants and bars as soon as possible…

“We do expect and are planning for and are surging people and everything else — but we expect hospitalizations to go up,” Giroir said. “At the peak in April, we were at about 85,000. Right now, we’re at 63,000. But we do expect those to go up.”

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