04-07-2020, 05:39 AM
Conditions for the so called re opening of individual states.
1. Hospitals must be able to treat all patients who need care, without resorting to crisis expedients.
This is the most immediate test. It’s not clear yet that any U.S. state has passed the point of peak demand for hospital care.
2. The state must be able to promptly test everyone who has symptoms, at a minimum.
That would mean performing about 750,000 tests a week across the country — and that’s once the situation has calmed considerably.
3. The state must be able to monitor all its confirmed cases and contacts.
Public health workers need to be able to trace the recent close contacts of everyone who tests positive and have them go into isolation or quarantine until it’s determined they’re not infected.
4. The number of new cases in the state must drop steadily for at least 14 days.
Such a trend would suggest that the state has achieved suppression — meaning that, on average, each patient is passing the virus along to fewer than one other person. When that’s true, the state’s case count will begin dropping exponentially, just as it rose.
1. Hospitals must be able to treat all patients who need care, without resorting to crisis expedients.
This is the most immediate test. It’s not clear yet that any U.S. state has passed the point of peak demand for hospital care.
2. The state must be able to promptly test everyone who has symptoms, at a minimum.
That would mean performing about 750,000 tests a week across the country — and that’s once the situation has calmed considerably.
3. The state must be able to monitor all its confirmed cases and contacts.
Public health workers need to be able to trace the recent close contacts of everyone who tests positive and have them go into isolation or quarantine until it’s determined they’re not infected.
4. The number of new cases in the state must drop steadily for at least 14 days.
Such a trend would suggest that the state has achieved suppression — meaning that, on average, each patient is passing the virus along to fewer than one other person. When that’s true, the state’s case count will begin dropping exponentially, just as it rose.