As a handful of states begin to ease stay-at-home restrictions, no state in the US has come close to the federally recommended 14 consecutive days of declining cases.
The number of cases states report each day doesn't necessarily reflect patients who were diagnosed within the past 24 hours. There is often a backlog of test results, and some infections aren't identified right away.
"It's a delicate conversation," said Cameron Wolfe, an associate professor of medicine at Duke University School of Medicine."We are literally trying to find ways of coexisting with COVID that doesn't lead us back into a secondary surge in cases."The most important way to ensure successful reopening, experts say, is to have a vast quantity of accurate tests to diagnose COVID-19 cases.
If the nation reopens"in a way that is not based on continued testing and understanding how the disease continues to circulate in our population," Anesi said,"then we could end up with another surge and another shutdown."
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