Businesses are reopening in Missouri, but a local leader warned that’s only safe if contact tracers can keep up with potential exposures.
The health department announced the first case on Friday, saying the hair stylist potentially exposed 7 coworkers and 84 clients. The second case, announced Saturday, potentially exposed 56 more clients at the hair salon.
Missouri has had 650 deaths out of about 12,000 COVID-19 cases so far, and the National Guard has been called in to help with testing. Goddard said he recognized the economic strain the strict lockdown put on people, but he urged them to stay home if they felt sick and not “make assumptions” if they typically suffer from allergies or summer colds.
“It’s not elderly, it’s not always comorbid, it’s also happening to children and to healthy young people as well,” he said. Staying home when sick remains critical to stopping the spread of the virus, he added, and allowing businesses to operate. “We’re moving out of a phase where we took enormous sacrifices as a community and there are economic hardships as a result of that. We’re in a new phase of this disease where we're going to walk that tightrope between disease control and economic harm. If we’re going to work sick and share this illness with others, it’s not a good approach.”
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