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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said on Sunday's "Meet the Press" on NBC that he was seriously looking at closing down bars and restaurants to combat the spread of COVID-19, and directed his anger toward the federal government for long lines at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport customs.
Illinois has announced 66 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 20 new ones announced on Saturday. Pritzker expressed disappointment Saturday in seeing long lines and posts on social media showing crowded bars and public gatherings, and asked that people "take this seriously" when it came to social distancing.
"Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd asked Pritzker if he was planning on shutting down bars and restaurants, similar to what France and Spain have done in the past day to combat the spread of the virus.
“Well, what I’m telling you is that we’ve been on the trajectory now and planning for each of these steps because it’s not easy,” Pritzker said. You can imagine each one of these decisions has consequences to them that are not just about the pandemic.
“They’re also about people’s livelihoods. So we’re actually looking hard at that decision making today. We obviously saw that happened in Europe. Nowhere in the United States really has there been a lockdown on bars and restaurants, but it’s something that we’re seriously looking at.”
As for the long lines at customs, which is under federal jurisdiction, Pritzker tweeted Saturday night at President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, asking them to take action to address the crowds.
"The federal government needs to get its (expletive) together. NOW," the governor tweeted.
Pritzker said on the NBC news program that he got a call from the White House at 11 p.m. Saturday, “from a White House staffer who yelled at me about the tweet. That is what I got."
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government's top infectious disease expert, said on “Fox News Sunday” that the airport crowds could spread the disease, but that they are likely to continue. American citizens, he said, need to understand that there is no need to rush back from Europe, but “when people see a travel ban, they immediately want to hunker and get home.”
“Hopefully we don’t have more of that, but I think we probably unfortunately will,” he said.
The worldwide outbreak has sickened more than 156,000 people and left more than 5,800 dead, with thousands of new cases confirmed each day. The death toll in the United States climbed to 57, while infections neared 3,000.
– The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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