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Coronavirus task force member Dr. Anthony Fauci said on “The Ingraham Angle” that President Trump’s Easter timeline to reboot the economy is “aspirational,” saying the president and his team are on the same page and that everyone understands a timeline for the coronavirus outbreak needs to be “flexible.”

“The president clearly listens. I mean, he has this aspirational goal of hoping that we might be able to do it by a certain date. We talked him about that. We say we need to be flexible. He realizes that and he accepts that,” Fauci told host Laura Ingraham. “I mean, he doesn’t want to give up his aspirational goal, but he’s flexible enough to say, ‘OK, let’s look at it on a day by day basis,’ we say, and we will give him data to inform that decision.”

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Fauci stressed that the president has an “open mind.”

“The more we learn about what’s out there, particularly in areas of the country that don’t have the big spikes like New York, and we talk about it, we talk about what that would do to inform our decision,” Fauci said. “But he’s been very flexible about it, even though it looks like he’s made this absolute decision on something. He does have an open mind about it.”

Trump on Tuesday evening emphasized his desire for the U.S. to reopen for business by Easter — as his top economic adviser said Congress is “getting closer and closer” to passing an unprecedented fiscal stimulus package.

Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, responded to Ingraham’s questions regarding studies that show men are more susceptible to the cornavirs than women, in particular obese men with underlying problems.

“It’s clear that men are are more likely to have serious health implications because it is more likely to get the virus,” Ingraham said. “It looks like including with hypertension, diabetes, obesity, heart disease, all factoring in and the co-morbidity rate once people are actually admitted into the into the hospital, then into the ICU. Any any idea of how and why that’s happening?”

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“We do not know. I mean, we have to be humble and say we’re really not sure. It’s a little bit puzzling. This may be some mitigating factors with men, but they have a greater incidence of some underlying conditions, perhaps with high blood pressure, perhaps heart disease, perhaps with smoking and lung disease,” Fauci said. “We don’t know. We don’t really know precisely. But they’re also the kids that they may have some underlying factors that are a bit more than in women.”

Fox News’ Gregg Re contributed to this report.

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said on “Fox & Friends” Tuesday that the novel coronavirus is “moving rapidly” and the situation at the city’s hospitals will worsen in the coming months.

De Blasio said he thinks “April is going to be a lot worse than March” and also fears that May could be even worse after the city emerged as a worldwide hotspot for the outbreak.

De Blasio made the comment as New York state reports the most coronavirus cases and deaths in the country with more than 23,230 confirmed cases and 188 deaths, according to data compiled by Fox News. New York City, which has a population of about 8.6 million people, is reporting the most cases in the state with more than 13,000, according to the data.

Trump tweeted on Tuesday, “The World market for face masks and ventilators is Crazy. We are helping the states to get equipment, but it is not easy. Just got 400 Ventilators for @NYCMayor Bill de Blasio. Work beginning on 4 hospitals in New York! Millions of different type items coming!”

“I’ve spoken to the president and I appreciate that he understands just how crucial it is to get those ventilators to New York City,” de Blasio said.

“That is the difference between someone who is suffering in one of our hospitals who might make it if they have access to a ventilator, but if we can’t have them on a ventilator at the right time, we could lose a lot of lives who otherwise could pull through, and I do appreciate that the president and his team is focused on that.”

De Blasio noted that the city is going to “need a lot” of ventilators, adding that “our estimate is approximately 15,000 before this is over, because of the sheer growth pattern.”

He added that “our hospitals in a matter of days or weeks, depending on the hospital, are going to be stressed to the point that they cannot provide the kind of health care we’re used to, unless we can get them a huge resupply of equipment, supplies, [and] personnel.”

He went on to say that New York City hospitals will “start to go broke” and stressed the importance of the emergency coronavirus stimulus bill.

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“What’s being talked about now in the stimulus bill is crucial, direct support for public and private hospitals because if they cannot pay the bills, and this is true all over the country, … health care will decline rapidly, overall not just about coronavirus.”

During a task force briefing on Monday, Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House’s coronavirus response coordinator, sounded the alarm for New Yorkers, urging them to continue to self-isolate because of the alarmingly aggressive “attack rate” of the novel coronavirus in the densely populated city.

Birx told reporters Monday that the New York City metro area has an attack rate — which refers to the percentage of a population that has a disease in epidemiology — of 1 in 1000.

“We have to keep people separated so our men and women of the NYPD will be out there spreading the message telling people break it up if they need to break it up, move along, no lines tight together in a grocery store, no grocery stores fill up,” de Blasio said on Tuesday.

He then noted that the New York City Police Department’s Police Commissioner Dermot Shea, who de Blasio said “has he’s been all over the city the last few days,”  told him he’s “so impressed at the number of people who are following the rules.”

“Life is going to be very different, but if we do this all over the country we can actually slow this thing down and keep our hospitals running,” de Blasio said.

On Sunday, Trump announced that the federal government has activated the National Guard to help three of the states hardest hit by the new coronavirus, including New York.

“Right now, the epicenter is in New York City, but we see it happening more and more in other parts of the country,” de Blasio noted on Tuesday.

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“You’re starting to see Florida, Louisiana, Georgia, all sorts of states are going to go through their wave next,” he continued. “The only force I think that can keep up with the need to constantly move supplies and equipment where they’re needed, and doctors, nurses, other medical personnel where they’re needed is going to be the U.S. military.”

Fox News’ Vandana Rambaran and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

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President Trump said Tuesday that he would not support an emergency coronavirus response bill pitched by House Democrats earlier this week.

“Nancy Pelosi came and put a lot of things in the deal that had nothing to do with workers — that had to do with an agenda that they have been trying to get passed for 10 years,” Trump told Fox News in a special “Virtual Town Hall.”

“I came in, I told Mike [Pence], I told a lot of people, ‘There is no way I am signing that deal,” the president added.

Trump said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., had almost reached an agreement on the response bill over the weekend before Democrats suddenly injected the “Green New Deal” into the mix.

“[The Democrats said] ‘We want green energy, let’s stop drilling oil’ — they had things in there that were terrible,” Trump said. “Windmills all over the place and all sorts of credits for windmills — they kill the birds and ruin the real estate. A lot of problems.”

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The president’s comment came one day after Senate Democrats blocked legislation from moving forward for a second time, claiming the plan did too much for large corporations and not enough for workers. Republicans accused them of playing politics and using the crisis as leverage to try and jam through unrelated political “wish list”.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Tuesday that “we’re very close” to a deal in the Senate.

But the House is another matter.

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The House Democratic proposal does not contain the “Green New Deal,” as Trump’s tweet suggested, but it does call for airlines that take federal aid to reduce their overall carbon emissions by 50 percent by 2050.

The bill also contains provisions to eliminate debt held by the U.S. Postal Service, require same-day voter registration, pay off $10,000 in student debt per person, and force federal agencies to explain to Congress how they are increasing their usage of “minority banks.”

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Trump said that the emergency coronavirus stimulus bill should “protect workers.”

“Workers first,” Trump said before adding: “But you have to protect companies like Boeing We can’t lose those companies. If we lose those companies, we’re talking about hundreds of thousands of jobs — millions of jobs.”

Fox News’ Brooke Singman contributed to this report.