Saturday, May 23, 2020

Reopening Wisconsin: Risky business in 5 southeastern counties



Public Health Experts Say Many States Are Opening Too Soon To Do So Safely.  (NPR, 5/8/2020)
By Monday, at least 31 states will have partially reopened after seven weeks of restrictions. The moves come as President Trump pushes for the country to get back to work despite public health experts warning that it's too soon. 
"The early lesson that was learned, really, we learned from the island of Hokkaido in Japan, where they did a really good job of controlling the initial phase of the outbreak," said Bob Bednarczyk, assistant professor of global health and epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta. 
Because of that success, many of the restrictions on the island were lifted. But cases and deaths surged in a second wave of infections. Twenty-six days later, the island was back on lockdown. 
"That's the concern that we have right now," he said.



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