US ‘not going back to the shutdowns of March of 2020’ says White House Press Secretary
03 August 2021 |
3:05 pm
"We're not going back to the shutdowns of March of 2020," says White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, as the US national average of daily coronavirus cases tops 60,000 and is rising rapidly.
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