President Trump on Thursday announced a three-phase strategy to reopen America, saying an extended national shutdown is “not a sustainable long-term solution.”
The effort will be led by governors, he said.
Continuing the current strategy indefinitely in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic, he said, would have devastating effects.
“A prolonged lockdown combined with a forced economic depression would inflict an immense and wide-ranging toll on public health,” Trump said. “This includes a sharp rise in drug abuse, alcohol abuse, suicide, heart disease and many other dimensions of physical and mental wellbeing. Moreover, many patients have put needed medical care on hold, creating entirely new hazards for public health.”
The White House’s strategy includes three phases to “restore economic life.”
“Healthy Americans will now be able to return to work as conditions on the ground allow,” Trump said. “Instead of a blanket shutdown, we will pursue a focus on sheltering the highest-risk individuals.”
Each phase will include benchmarks on new case growth, cases and hospital capacity “that must be met before advancing to each phase,” he said.
For example, in order to proceed to the three-phase strategy, a state should show a downward trajectory of documented cases within a 14-day period or a “downward trajectory of positive tests as a percent of total…
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