The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director told CNN that he was concerned about some states 'leapfrogging over the first checkpoint' as they looked to reopen.
Dr. Anthony Fauci said states should not reopen if local coronavirus infections have not plateaued, warning that a failure to handle new cases could result in a second peak.
He also noted that the the process of reopening would be"a little different" in each state, city and region of the country.Anderson Cooper 360"If you take a look at them, even though the 30 day mitigation period has ended, the first component of opening America again is looking for a gateway, which means you have to go down over a fourteen day period... in the number of cases that you have before you can even think about going to phase one.
to rolling back quarantine measures, local authorities are told not to enter the first phase of lifting lockdown measures unless a downward trajectory of influenza-like disease has been reported over a two week period. Later in his interview with CNN, Fauci said:"The concern that I have is that there are some states, some cities and what have you, who are looking at that and leapfrogging over the first checkpoint.
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