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Showing Original Post only (View all)CDC, FEMA have created a plan to reopen America. Here's what it says. [View all]
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/14/cdc-fema-have-created-plan-reopen-america-heres-what-it-says/
The plan lays out three-phases: Preparing the nation to reopen with a national communication campaign and community readiness assessment until May 1. Then, the effort, through May 15, would involve ramping up manufacturing of testing kits and personal protective equipment and increasing emergency funding. Then staged reopenings would begin, depending on local conditions. The plan does not give specific dates for reopenings but specified not before May 1.
The first priority, according to the CDC response document, is to reopen community settings where children are cared for, including K-12 schools, daycares, and locally attended summer camps, to allow the workforce to return to work. Other community settings will follow with careful monitoring for increased transmission that exceeds the public health and health care systems.
The plan also carries this warning: Models indicate 30-day shelter in place followed by 180 day lifting of all mitigation results in large rebound curve some level of mitigation will be needed until vaccines or broad community immunity is achieved for recovering communities.
The plan describes the conditions under which it is reasonable to lift some community mitigation measures, the phased steps to reduce those measures and indicators to monitor the impact of transmission on public health and health system capacities.