Here are five story lines this summer that will reveal whether the U.S. has turned the corner on coronavirus
Swelling crowds at parks, beaches and home improvement stores during the traditional start of summer already are showing that many Americans want to venture out and declare the pandemic is over.Some states still have stubbornly rising numbers of coronavirus cases, and theaters, camps and sporting events are still largely off the table for now. President Donald Trump is touting the great American reopening, but public health officials like Dr. Anthony Fauci are being much more cautious.
A shortage of basic supplies like cotton swabs that plagued early efforts to ramp up testing remains a problem, said Michael Mina, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “We do not have enough to go forward, despite what the president says," Mina said. “Anyone who says we have plenty of tests in this country is just wrong.”
Redfield wants a workforce of between 30,000 and 100,000 contact tracers. But Texas is only halfway toward Gov. Greg Abbott's goal of hiring 4,000. And in Colorado — one of the first states to reopen — the Association of Local Public Health Officials estimates that public health departments still need to hire as many as 5,000.
Businesses are quickly transforming to reassure nervous customers and employees about making a safe return. | Ethan Miller/Getty Images “There’s a global case of ants in your pants,” Hamer said, which might explain why parks and beaches on both coasts have been packed.
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