[WASHINGTON] The United States may be ready to start gradually reopening next month, the government's top infectious diseases expert said Sunday, as signs grew that the coronavirus pandemic was peaking. Read more at The Business Times.
"We are hoping by the end of the month we can look around and say, OK, is there any element here that we can safely and cautiously start pulling back on?" Mr Fauci said.Mr Fauci said that regions would be ready at different times rather than the United States turning back on like a"light switch."
"We want to reopen as soon as possible," New York Governor Andrew Cuomo told reporters."The caveat is we need to be smart in the way we reopen." Mr Trump, for his part, wrote on Twitter Sunday:"We are winning, and will win, the war on the Invisible Enemy!"The United States has been recording nearly 2,000 deaths a day from the coronavirus, disproportionately older people with weakened immune systems and ethnic minorities with less access to health care and teleworking."You're not seeing a great decline in the numbers, but you're seeing a flattening," he said.
The New York Times, in an extensive article published Sunday, described Mr Trump as failing to act quickly in part due to confidence in his gut instincts and his distrust of civil servants he brands as a conspiratorial"deep state."
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