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The pressure’s on to reopen as their economies get crushed.
New Jersey and Oklahoma are rolling out saliva-based tests that are safer for medical workers.
Research suggests the warmer, more humid summer months could slow the virus’s spread.
See Georgia, Colorado, South Carolina, Florida, and Tennessee.
‘There was no Tony Fauci back then,’ said John Barry, who wrote ‘The Great Influenza.’
Experts say far more tests need to be performed before it’s safe to ease social distancing.
The data will help health officials make key decisions about social distancing and hospital demand.
Longstanding restrictions on telemedicine have been relaxed during social distancing.
Inside the auto giants’ efforts to build prototypes and revamp factories to produce tens of thousands of ventilators in time for covid-19 patients.
‘I don’t know how you make policy without these numbers,’ Stanford University researcher Jay Bhattacharya told me.
Simple cloth masks that cover the mouth and nose can prevent virus transmission by people who are infected but not symptomatic when they are out buying groceries or seeking medical care, according to memos obtained by The Washington Post.