Vice President Mike Pence and the coronavirus task force informed House lawmakers on Wednesday that the Trump administration is exploring ways to return to “normality” and could soon unveil guidance for eventually reopening the country.
Top officials also delivered some rare positive news about the global health crisis: They’re starting to see improvements in some of the country’s worst hot spots.
In separate briefings with Republicans and Democrats on Wednesday, Pence told lawmakers that the areas hit hardest by the novel coronavirus have started to show early signs of “stabilization,” according to multiple lawmakers and aides on the conference calls.
“They’re starting to see, they think, this virus in some of these known hot spots begin to maybe top out,” Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) told POLITICO. “There are some hopeful signs in New York and other places. But we all know there’s a long way to go.”