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and found"an overall uptick in the number of residents leaving their homes in the hours and days after and a jump in restaurant and bar visits. But the overall increase statewide was small and is consistent with a trend toward greater movement that started more than a month ago.
" The SafeGraph cellphone data is based on the daily recorded movements of more than 16 million cellular devices. The data does not identify device owners. There are caveats to the findings, the reporters noted. Not everyone owns a cellphone, daily fluctuations are possible and weekly averages are better, and while many Wisconsin counties opened, businesses in the state's two largest cities, Milwaukee and Madison, largely remained closed. Still, the data showed that the quarantine lift didn't lead to a spike in people leaving their homes or a spike in mobility."Three days after the order, the share of people leaving their homes in Wisconsin grew by 3% compared with the same three-day period the week before," the reporters found."That rate was in keeping with what the data showed was generally happening in other Midwestern states and nationally." People want and need to get back to life, but safely. We published an opinion piece this week that gave guidelines for doing just that.and was spearheaded by Andy Slavitt, founder and board chair of United States of Care, and Dr. Mark McClellan, director of the Robert J. Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University. "We have sacrificed with great unity to #StayHome in order to reduce the infection rate and save lives," they wrote."We want a sense of normalcy back – to go to work, to go to restaurants, to see sports again, to send our kids to school, to hug our families – but not at the expense of the lives of our friends, families and neighbors. "We want a good economy and public safety, but we are afraid if we open too quickly, or don’t have plans to adjust if spread recurs, we will have neither."White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx, what areas can most safely open up when criteria are met ; additional areas they hope can open under significantly modified conditions ; and areas that should remain closed until risks can be significantly reduced "We're not asking for zero risk before we open," Slavitt said."But we are asking that the tools be in place to make sure that if we do have any cases, which we will, that they quickly become contained and don't turn into outbreaks. "The basics of the coronavirus haven't changed. It's still contagious. It still travels in a surreptitious way. It's still lethal to large populations. So when we open up, we've got to do it in a step wise kind of way.". Slavitt said, 'There's not a governor, a person in the country, that wants people to die unnecessarily or wants to see their economies tank.'
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