‘We need a comprehensive battle strategy’: States opening their economies lack benchmarks for reimposing restrictions

Many of the states moving most quickly to roll back rules designed to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus lack benchmarks that would require them to reimpose restrictions if infections spike.

That leaves governors who are anxious to jump-start their economies untethered to clear numerical standards, alarming even some of the top medical officials in their states, who warn that new outbreaks are on the horizon.

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