Businesses reopen in some states, but conflicting messages stoke confusion.
About three million cases have been detected around the world, and the global death toll passed 200,000. States across the United States gradually allowed some businesses to resume even as social distancing remains the norm.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain, on his first day back at work after falling sick with the virus, said it was too early to say when the lockdown in his country would be relaxed…
As several states moved ahead with plans to tentatively restart their economies, many Americans were confronted with yet another new calculation on Monday. After weeks of being told to simply stay home, they would now have to decide how to make sense of conflicting messages from local politicians and public health officials.
Dr. Deborah L. Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, cautioned that Americans should expect some form of social-distancing guidelines to continue for months.
“Social distancing will be with us through the summer,” she said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Her comments came after Vice President Mike Pence suggested that the epidemic would be under control by the end of May.
“I think by Memorial Day Weekend we will largely have this coronavirus epidemic behind us,” he said late last week…
Read the full piece in The New York Times here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/us/coronavirus-updates.html
