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During the daily briefing on the coronavirus at the White House on Monday, Trump said our country was not built to be “shut down,” and that “this was a medical problem, we’re not going to let it turn into a long-term financial problem.”

Resolution of this pandemic cannot ride on hopes of herd immunity that have not been substantiated by science. The nation is not prepared for the consequences.

Delaram J. Taghipour, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., is a preventive medicine resident at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and is a contributor to the ABC News Medical Unit.

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