California Gov. Gavin Newsom made a Friday appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, during which he spoke about his swift reaction to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
As one of the first U.S. governors to order a stay-at-home rule and encourage social distancing statewide, Newsom admitted that some "people thought it was too much, too soon, too fast." "But, I think, ultimately it’s helped advance our efforts to, as I said, bend this curve.
And what I mean by that is nothing more than this: We had models showing the massive increase in the total number of infections," he told DeGeneres, who has been filming her talk show from her home in Los Angeles. "But because of 40 million Californians taking these directives very, very seriously — staying.
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