Joe Biden on Friday night said the Trump administration has taken a fundamentally flawed view of the crisis.

Trump has repeatedly cast efforts to combat the virus as the cause of economic troubles and suggested that he would ease up on public health efforts, like social distancing, ahead of medical experts' recommendations.

"It's a false choice to make, saying that you either open the economy or everything goes to hell. Or, in fact, you take care of the medical side," Biden said. "You cannot make this economy grow until you deal with the virus."

Trump has suggested he would like to "open up" the economy by Easter, but Biden pointed to the ongoing upward trend in cases, suggesting people will likely have to stay home significantly longer.

"They're one and the same -- you can't deal with the economic crisis until you deal with the healthcare crisis," Biden said, before calling on the government to get stimulus funds to the publics.

"In the meantime, Congress has acted and they moved with a $2 trillion package on top of the one they already passed," he said. "And it's about managing, about getting that out to the people. Getting that out in the communities. Getting that distributed."

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