US will ‘blow through success’ against coronavirus if it reopens too early

Sky News contributor Michael Ware says New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s response to the coronavirus “contrasts markedly” with that of other state governors across the United States. A number of states – including Georgia and Alaska – will begin reopening their economies by beginning elective surgeries and opening businesses such as restaurants. “All of that is too early according to the Centre of Disease Control,” Mr Ware told Sky News. He said the CDC advised that states retain lockdown restrictions until they have recorded two weeks where the infection rate is consistently dropping. “They found that if they can keep the infection rate between 0.8 per cent, so I infect less than one person, to 1.2 per cent infection from me than we can hang on to this,” he said. “[Cuomo] said otherwise we are going to blow through this success like the wind through the weeds.” Image: AP

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