The president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says that reopening the economy 'will be gradual.' 'We know that different communities have been hit in a different way. Different industries will have different requirements,' she said.
Closed shops are seen in Manhattan's Chinatown on March 17 in New York City. The path to reopening stores will be complex, the head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says.Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images
I wonder, for example, how you were thinking about the push and pull between wanting to do this responsibly, wanting to sequence this. ... On the other hand, so much is interlinked. Parents, of course, can't return to their jobs until schools are open, until day care is open. It all needs to happen together.
But it's really four things. One, what are the essential services you need, such as child care and transit? Two, what is the equipment and training an employer needs to have in place? Three, what are the regulatory roadblocks or litigation risk they need to be thinking about? And four, it is going to be phases because we know there are industries that rely on high density that will take longer to get back to normal.
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