I would shut down US if needed: Biden

Democratic Party’s presidential nominee Joe Biden, also the former US Vice President, said he would shut the country down to stop the spread of Covid-19 if the move was recommended to him by scientists.

Joe Biden said this in an exclusive interview with ABC "World News Tonight" Anchor David Muir on Friday (Aug 21).

“I would shut it down; I would listen to the scientists,” Biden told Muir Friday, alongside his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., during their first joint interview since officially becoming the Democratic Party’s presidential and vice presidential nominees.

Biden also criticized what he argued is the “fundamental flaw” of the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, that the nation cannot begin to recover economically until the virus and public health emergency is under control.

“I will be prepared to do whatever it takes to save lives because we cannot get the country moving, until we control the virus,” Biden said. “That is the fundamental flaw of this administration's thinking to begin with. In order to keep the country running and moving and the economy growing, and people employed, you have to fix the virus, you have to deal with the virus.”