Diagnostic tests and contact tracing remain key to controlling the pandemic, experts say.
As a handful of states begin to ease stay-at-home restrictions, no state that has opted to reopen has come close to the federally recommended 14 consecutive days of declining cases.
"We want to reopen, but we want to do it without infecting more people or overwhelming the hospital system," Cuomo said. "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.
Story continuesIf 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." "It's a big effort," Wolfe said."You need to have a very clear pathway by which you can execute contact tracing. Currently, I don't think many states, sadly, have really thought that through."
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