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Governors around the U.S. began collaborating on plans Tuesday to reopen their economies in what is likely to be a drawn-out, step-by-step process to prevent the coronavirus from rebounding with disastrous results.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has joined a coalition with his West Coast counterparts in Oregon and Washington, announced a detailed plan for lifting virus restrictions, one "where science, where public health, not politics, must be the guide."
Newsom said he wants to see hospitalization numbers flatten and decline before he begins rolling back state-at-home orders.
But he said things won’t look the same when the state reopens. He said waiters at restaurants will likely be wearing masks and gloves.
And he said public schools could stagger the times when students arrive to maintain social distancing.
California has been under a statewide stay-at-home order since March 19. Since then, more than 2 million Californians have filed for unemployment benefits.
While the crisis is far from over in the U.S., with about 25,000 dead and approximately 600,000 confirmed infections by Johns Hopkins University's count, the doomsday scenarios that were predicted just two weeks ago have not come to pass, raising hopes from coast to coast.
For most people, the new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough that clear up in two to three weeks. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia and death.
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