'Almost no one there': De Blasio defends hitting the gym after warning against it during coronavirus pandemic

There was "almost no one" at the gym Bill de Blasio visited after telling everyone to avoid going to public gyms, he said.

The New York City mayor visited a YMCA on Monday morning to get in a workout one day after announcing that restaurants, bars, and gyms would be closing to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus. He defended the decision on Monday afternoon, saying, "There was almost no one there."

"I had heard that information prior,” he explained. “I suspected that we were all going to be about to close them down, and this would be the last time to get some exercise.”

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