Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said he would follow the advice of public health advisers’ if they called for a nationwide shutdown should he take office and the COVID-19 pandemic had not abated.
“I would be prepared to do whatever it takes to save lives. We cannot get the country moving until we control the virus,” the former vice-president said in an interview with ABC News.
Asked how he would handle the pandemic in office and specifically whether he’d push a national shutdown if scientists said it was necessary, Biden replied, “I would shut it down.”
Biden’s remarks came as part of his first joint interview with vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
It should be noted here that Joe Biden will be the oldest US president ever inaugurated if he beats Mr Trump in November.
