San Francisco Mayor London Breed is not a fan of President Donald Trump's proposal to reopen the country by Easter, and is also underwhelmed by the federal government's efforts to aid local hospitals through the coronavirus pandemic.

During a Thursday phone interview on CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer," Breed was asked about the president's proposed timeline and plan to designate counties as high risk, medium risk and low risk.

"I think sadly what the president is asking for is ridiculous," she said. "We have people who are dying, we have people who cannot even be tested, we have folks who are infecting people who don't even understand they are walking around with the virus as we speak. And we're already talking about reopening places where we need to make sure cases never make it to in the first place. The whole point of why we're shutting major cities down and we're asking people to do something we've never asked them to do before has everything to do with public health. If we continue business as usual and put a deadline on things without listening to public health experts ... I don't know what we're going to be doing. It will be even worse."

Breed was also asked about projections that San Francisco's hospitals could be overwhelmed shortly, and criticized the federal government for not helping provide personal protective equipment (PPE).

"We have had to basically go around the federal government in getting our own materials from other countries to have the PPE everyone is talking about," she said. "This is something the federal government should be leading on, and you have cities partnering with the private sector so we can protect our nurses and doctors and people on the front lines."

You can watch her full interview in the video clip above.

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Eric Ting is an SFGATE digital reporter. Email: eric.ting@sfgate.com | Twitter:@_ericting