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

www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/upshot/coronavirus-four-benchmarks-reopening.html

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.