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Biden advisers differ on national coronavirus lockdown, 1 calls it 'measure of last resort'

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WASHINGTON - The co-chair of President-elect Joe Biden’s coronavirus task force, former Surgeon General Dr.

Vivek Murthy, described lockdowns Sunday as "a measure of last resort," countering comments last week by another task force member."That’s a measure of last resort," Murthy said on "Fox News Sunday." "The way we think about lockdowns, I think, is different now than it was in the spring.

In the spring, when we didn’t know a lot about COVID, we responded in a sense with an on-off switch. We just shut things down because we didn’t know exactly how this was spreading and where it was spreading.""We've learned a lot more since then that tells us that the better way to think about the safety restrictions is more as a dial that we turn up.

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