(CNN) Former Vice President Joe Biden chided President Donald Trump on Tuesday for saying he wants the US "opened up and just raring to go" by April 12, telling CNN's Jake Tapper that Trump should "stop talking and start listening to the medical experts."

Trump set the Easter goal earlier Tuesday on Fox News. It's a date that few health experts believe will be sufficient in containing the spread of coronavirus.

"Look, we all want the economy to open as rapidly as possible. The way to do that is let's take care of the medical side of this immediately," Biden said in an interview with CNN.

The former vice president said he could envision some parts of the country and some sectors being ready to return to work on Trump's timeline.

"But the idea that we're in a position where we're saying, by Easter, he wants to have everybody going back to work? What's he talking about?" Biden said.

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