President Donald Trump in an interview with ABC News Tuesday said: “there’ll be more death” related to the coronavirus pandemic as a growing number of states move to gradually relax their stay-at-home orders within the coming months. 

While visiting a mask-making factory in Arizona Trump told ABC News, "It's possible there will be some because you won't be locked into an apartment or a house or whatever it is". "But at the same time, we're going to practice social distancing, we're going to be washing hands, we're going to be doing a part of the things that we've learned to do over the last period of time.”

The number of confirmed U.S. coronavirus cases is nearing 1.2 million, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University as of Tuesday afternoon. There have been over 70,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins.

However, in the ABC News interview, Trump said that the virus is going to pass without a vaccine.

According to Trump, “There'll be more death, that the virus will pass, with or without a vaccine.” “And I think we're doing very well on the vaccines but, with or without a vaccine, it's going to pass, and we're going to be back to normal.”

Trump compared a rising coronavirus death toll to the nation’s suicide and medicate overdose rate. When squeezed why he is encouraging a reopening indeed as government health specialists, such as Dr. Anthony Fauci, warned that doing so as well soon would be adjusting death with the economy.