Trump wants some parts of the country to return to normal daily life, but experts say the only safe strategy is one that applies to the entire nation.
As of Thursday, more than 75,000 Americans had been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. More than 1,100 have died from it.
This is what we envision: Our expanded testing capabilities will quickly enable us to publish criteria, developed in close coordination with the Nation's public health officials and scientists, to help classify counties with respect to continued risks posed by the virus. This will incorporate robust surveillance testing, which allows us to monitor the spread of the virus throughout the country.
Trump's reliance on surveillance testing appears to ignore the fact that the U.S. currently does not have a surveillance testing system in place. The plan outlined by the president also does not take into account the likely impact of opening some areas of the country while keeping others closed. Public health experts say this can actually contribute to the spread of pandemics by causing people in search of goods and services to travel from closed-down areas with high infection rates to more open areas with lower rates.
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