# How Will We Know When It’s Time to Reopen the Nation? - The New York Times

<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/upshot/coronavirus-four-benchmarks-reopening.html>

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## What Jamie wrote

This is a question that many people have asked, and I think this is a reasonable approach to determining when we can reopen things.

> 1. Hospitals in the state must be able to safely treat all patients requiring hospitalization, without resorting to crisis standards of care.
> 2. A state needs to be able to at least test everyone who has symptoms.
> 3. The state is able to conduct monitoring of confirmed cases and contacts.
> 4. There must be a sustained reduction in cases for at least 14 days.

The quarantines that most states are doing is clearly focused on #1. I’m continuing to worry that we aren't making the progress we need to on testing.

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