"I think we need to be very smart about [reopening the economy]. I’ll give you an example. Some businesses are much more important than others. Think about the optometrists, who are largely closed. I could see if we flatten the curve optometry offices opening, so you can go and get your eyes checked. There are not a lot of people crowded into an eye store at a given time. Contrast that with a movie theater. Is it going to make sense to have 100 people in a crowded movie theater [before] we have a vaccine? Probably not."

Neel Kashkari, an American banker who is president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, in an interview Tuesday morning with Savannah Guthrie on NBC’s Today Show.