Right now is the 'right time' for America to consider safely lifting coronavirus restrictions on a case-by-case basis, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) professor of health metrics sciences Dr. Ali Mokdad urged Saturday.
Protesters against the coronavirus shutdown rally in front of State Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, on April 24, 2020. - The coronavirus pandemic soared past 50,000 in the US.
"I recommend [making decisions] based on your public health capacity, to do the tracing and the ability to catch the cases early on," he told Cavuto. "So," Mokdad continued, "if a state has enough people to do the tracing and has the surveillance system in place -- public health [systems have] to be ready for them -- they can do it."professor explained that the decisions must be made based on where the virus is, the percentage of new cases cropping up, and how much the public health workforce can control outbreaks in specific locations.
"So, it's a balance between how many people you have right now to do the tracing and how much [testing capacity] you have and where the disease is in your own state," he said.
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