Trump's coronavirus reopening plan has big holes, health experts say

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CORONAVIRUS | The plan comes as the US death toll crosses 37,000 and there are over 708,000 cases.

| The US economy has imploded in the past month amid aggressive measures to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, with 22 million people filing for unemployment benefits and most factories, stores and other businesses at a virtual standstill.

But the guidelines, and the ways in which experts say they fall short, suggest that revving activity back up to pre-pandemic levels will be anything but smooth or speedy. The United States has reported more coronavirus infections than any other country, with about 708,000 cases and more than 37,000 deaths.

States are "far from being able to do enough tests to enable us to move to the next phase of responding to the pandemic," says Jen Kates of the Kaiser Family Foundation. She says there are no details in the guidelines on how much testing is needed. A study here from McKinsey & Company, which is advising New York Governor Andrew Cuomo as he battles the nation's worst coronavirus outbreak, recommends opening a few sectors at a time, based on "both the risk of transmission and the relative importance" of each sector, as defined by the number of jobs and contribution to the economy.

“Those may not be permitted until we have seen that work can safely return without a resurgence,” tweeted Gottleib, who was FDA commissioner from 2017 to 2019 and was otherwise generally supportive of the guidelines.

 

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Comparing to all the previous president , he is the most careless towards American health. What matters is his upcoming presidential election. Badly manage US covid19 . The numbers of infection and death telling us the facts.

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